Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington. Letter to his mother, 1818. Cited in Trevelyan, George Otto. The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Vol. 1, Harper & Brothers, 1876, p. 86.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, FRS FRSE PC was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist, on contemporary and historical sociopolitical subjects, and as a reviewer. His The History of England was a seminal and paradigmatic example of Whig historiography, and its literary style has remained an object of praise since its publication, including subsequent to the widespread condemnation of its historical contentions which became popular in the 20th century.
