William Spottiswoode Quote

[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.

Report of the Forty-eighth Meeting of the British Association for the, Advancement of Science