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"Oh, thats nothing – I could coach a coal scuttle to be Senior Wrangler."
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Peter Guthrie Tait was a Scottish mathematical physicist and early pioneer in thermodynamics. He is best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Lord Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory.
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"[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to pay."
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"The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions."
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