Quotes by Mary Somerville

"It is not always possible to come to an agreement before one goes to sleep but it is possible to go to sleep in a loving and peaceable manner knowing that the problem can be worked out in love at a later time."

"So numerous are the objects which meet our view in the heavens, that we cannot imagine a part of space where some light would not strike the eye : but as the fixed stars would not be visible at such distances, if they did not shine by their own light, it is reasonable to infer that they are suns ; and if so, they are in all probability attended by systems of opaque bodies, revolving about them as the planets do about ours."

"Perhaps the day may come when even gravitation, no longer regarded as an ultimate principle, may be resolved into a yet more general cause, embracing every law that regulates the material world."