_Preface to the Lilawati. Quoted by A. Hutton: A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary, Article “Algebra” (London, 1815)._ =996.= Is there anyone whose name cannot be twisted into either praise or satire? I have had given to me, _Thomas Babington Macaulay Mouths big: a Cantab anomaly._ --DE MORGAN, A. _Budget of Paradoxes (London, 1872), p. 83._ CHAPTER X PERSONS AND ANECDOTES (N-Z) =1001.= When he had a few moments for diversion, he [Napoleon] not unfrequently employed them over a book of logarithms, in which he always found recreation.--ABBOTT, J. S. C. _Napoleon Bonaparte (New York, 1904), Vol. 1, chap. 10._ =1002.= The name of Sir Isaac Newton has by general consent been placed at the head of those great men who have been the ornaments of their species.... The philosopher [Laplace], indeed, to whom posterity will probably assign a place next to Newton, has characterized the Principia as pre-eminent above all the productions of human intellect.--BREWSTER, D. _Life of Sir Isaac Newton (London, 1831), pp. 1, 2._ =1003.= Newton and Laplace need myriads of ages and thick-strewn celestial areas. One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton’s mind.--EMERSON. _Essay on History._ =1004.= The law of gravitation is indisputably and incomparably the greatest scientific discovery ever made, whether we look at the advance which it involved, the extent of truth disclosed, or the fundamental and satisfactory nature of this truth. --WHEWELL, W. _History of the Inductive Sciences, Bk. 7, chap. 2, sect. 5._ =1005.= Newton’s theory is the circle of generalization which includes all the others [as Kepler’s laws, Ptolemy’s theory, etc.];--the highest point of the inductive ascent;--the catastrophe of the philosophic drama to which Plato had prologized;--the point to which men’s minds had been journeying for two thousand years.--WHEWELL, W. _History of the Inductive Sciences, Bk. 7, chap. 2, sect. 5._ =1006.= The efforts of the great philosopher [Newton] were always superhuman; the questions which he did not solve were incapable of solution in his time.--ARAGO. _Eulogy on Laplace, [Baden Powell] Smithsonian Report, 1874, p. 133._ =1007.= Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light. --POPE, A.