Mary Somerville Quotes

• No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.

  Mary Somerville

  Race, Color, Diversity

  Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.479

  36 Copy quote

• Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

  Mary Somerville

  Math, Unity, Deities

  Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville (2001). “Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

  23 Copy quote

• The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

  Mary Somerville

  Women, Age, Moral

  Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.508

  19 Copy quote

• The most savage people are also the ugliest.

  Mary Somerville

  People, Savages

  Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.482

  17 Copy quote

• Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which have been by slow degrees vouchsafed to man, and are still granted in these latter times by the Differential Calculus, now superseded by the Higher Algebra, all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient Mind from eternity.

  Mary Somerville

  Math, Men, Unity

  Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville (2001). “Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

  17 Copy quote

• No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.

  Mary Somerville

  Importance

  Mary Somerville (2010). “Queen Of Science”, p.92, Canongate Books

  10 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin