“I was capable of being moved, mathematically, as it were, by the belief that a particular course was right; and I do believe that God put these views in my mind, working by means of that which was in me to supply that which was wanting,”
Lucasian Professor George Gabriel Stokes
“Then it is right that you should even now draw back, nor heed though I should go to the grave a thinking machine unenlivened and uncheered and unwarmed by the happiness of domestic affection,” (on receiving reply of his 55 page essay to his future wife on why they should not be marreid)
Lucasian Professor George Gabriel Stokes