Top 6 Quotes by Mary Somerville

No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.

No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.

Race, Color, Diversity

Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.479

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

Mary Somerville

Math, Unity, Deities

Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville (2001). “Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

The most savage people are also the ugliest.

Mary Somerville

People, Savages

Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.482

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.

Mary Somerville

Women, Age, Moral

Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.508

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science which have been by slow degrees vouchsafed to man, and are still granted in these latter times by the Differential Calculus, now superseded by the Higher Algebra, all of which must have existed in that sublimely omniscient Mind from eternity.

Mary Somerville

Math, Men, Unity

Kathryn A. Neeley, Mary Somerville (2001). “Mary Somerville: Science, Illumination, and the Female Mind”, p.180, Cambridge University Press