The More Thoroughly I Conduct Scientific Research,

Mathematics Is The Only Good Metaphysics.

Simplification Of Modes Of Proof Is Not Merely An Indication Of Advance In Our Knowledge Of A Subject, But Is Also The Surest Guarantee Of Readiness For Farther Progress.

We All Confidently Believe That There Are At Present, And Have Been From Time Immemorial, Many Worlds Of Life Besides Our Own. . . . [this] May Seem Wild, And Visionary; All I Maintain Is That It Is Not Unscientific.

Accurate And Minute Measurement Seems To The Non-scientific Imagination, A Less Lofty And Dignified Work Than Looking For Something New. But Nearly All The Grandest Discoveries Of Science Have Been But The Rewards Of Accurate Measurement And Patient Long-continued Labour In The Minute Sifting Of Numerical Results.

The Fact That Mathematics Does Such A Good Job Of Describing The Universe Is A Mystery That We Don't Understand. And A Debt That We Will Probably Never Be Able To Repay.