Neil Arnott Quotes

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Attraction, as gravitation, is the muscle and tendon of the universe, by which its mass is held together and its huge limbs are wielded. As cohesion and adhesion, it determines the multitude of physical features of its different parts. As chemical or interatomic action, it is the final source to which we trace all material changes.

Neil Arnott

If it excite our admiration that a varied edifice, or even a magnificent city can be constructed of stone from one quarry, what must our feeling be to learn how few and simple the elements are out of which the sublime fabric of the universe, with all its orders of phenomena, has arisen, and is now sustained.

Neil Arnott

No man can understand a subject of which he does not carry a distinct outline in his mind.

Neil Arnott