Thomas Muir

Thomas Muir is the name of:

  • Thomas Muir (political reformer) (1765–1799), leader of the Scottish "Friends of the People Society"
  • Thomas Muir (mathematician) (1844–1934), Scottish mathematician

Famous quotes containing the words thomas and/or muir:

    “There was a saviour
    Rarer than radium,
    Commoner than water, crueller than truth;
    Children kept from the sun
    Assembled at his tongue
    To hear the golden note turn in a groove....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “The ancestral deed is thought and done,
    And in a million Edens fall
    A million Adams drowned in darkness,
    For small is great and great is small,
    And a blind seed all.”
    —Edwin Muir (1887–1959)