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We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.

Numerical precision is the very soul of science.

The perfection of mathematical beauty is such ... that whatsoever is most beautiful and regular is also found to be most useful and excellent.

Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork.

It is success that colours all in life,
Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.

Everything is what it is because it got that way.