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[The] connexions between Mathematics and other subjects, to prove that hers is not after all such a far-off region, nor so undecipherable an alphabet, and to show that even at unlikely spots we may trace under-currents of thought which having issued from a common source fertilise alike the mathematical and the non-mathematical world.

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So wide is the range of mathematical science, so indefinitely may it extend beyond our actual powers of manipulation, that at some moments we are inclined to fall down with even more than reverence before her majestic presence.

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The simplicity of nature which we at present grasp is really the result of infinite complexity; and that below the uniformity there underlies a diversity whose depths we have not yet probed, and whose secret places are still beyond our reach.

William Spottiswoode

William Spottiswoode

William Spottiswoode

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Born: January 11, 1825

Died: June 27, 1883 (aged 58)

Bio: William H. Spottiswoode PRS was an English mathematician and physicist. He was President of the Royal Society from 1878 to 1883.

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