Source: Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (1972), p. 495
“With respect to the cohesion and capillary action of liquids, I have had the good fortune to anticipate Mr. Laplace in his late researches, and I have endeavoured to show, that my assumptions are more universally applicable to the facts, than those which that justly celebrated mathematician has employed.”
Preface
A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1807)
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Preface
A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1807)

President of France Émile Loubet telegraph to Mrs. McKinley. The Authentic Life of President McKinley, page 398.

“I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.”
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd

7 May 2005
On the government's proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission, 7 May, 2005

Source: The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1821) (Third Edition), Chapter XXXII, Malthus on Rent, p. 281

In his introduction to his site on The Lucifer Effect (2007) http://www.lucifereffect.com/
Context: I summarize more than 30 years of research on factors that can create a "perfect storm" which leads good people to engage in evil actions. This transformation of human character is what I call the "Lucifer Effect," named after God's favorite angel, Lucifer, who fell from grace and ultimately became Satan.
Rather than providing a religious analysis, however, I offer a psychological account of how ordinary people sometimes turn evil and commit unspeakable acts.

Vol. II: On Symbolical Algebra and its Applications to the Geometry of Position (1845) Preface, p. iii
A Treatise on Algebra (1842)

Paris 1923
As quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 311
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