"At quite uncertain times and places, The atoms left their heavenly path, And by fortuitous embraces, Engendered all that being hath. And though they seem to cling together, And form 'associations' her…"

"Mathematicians my flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express."

"It is a perfect pleasure to think of anything that is not connected with the examination."

"I saw a rat today in the college garden, and I thought how much more pleasant it would be to be a rat than a professor."

"The human mind is in a state of perpetual oscillation between the actual and the possible."