Along with the Irishmen of his time, he was aware of the cultural unity of Europe. 与那个时代的爱尔兰人一样,他意识到欧洲文化的统一性。
Because of this underlying unity of physics, progress in one subfield usually illuminates other subfields as well. 由于物理学的这种根本上的统一性,在一个分支学科中取得的进展通常也会启发其它分支学科。