Thomas Henry Huxley Quote

The genius which sighs for new worlds to conquer beyond that surprising region in which "geometry, algebra, and the theory of numbers melt into one another like sunset tints, or the colours of a dying dolphin," may be of comparatively little service in the cold domain (mostly lighted by the moon, some say) of philosophy.

Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews (p. vi), D. Appleton & Co. 1903