Adolphe Quetelet Quote
The more progress physical sciences makes, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of center to which they all converge. We may even judge of the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.
In: E. Mailly, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1874
