Matthew Collett's Home Page

These pages cover some aspects of my cultural and recreational interests. If you want to know about my professional scientific activities, go instead to my page on the website of the University of Auckland Physics Department.

Auckland Catholic Music Schola

The Auckland Catholic Music Schola is a small choir specialising in the liturgical performance of traditional sacred music.

Terms signify God to the extent that our intellect knows him. And since our intellect knows God from creatures it knows him to the extent that creatures represent him.
St Thomas Aquinas

The Piano

I took the piano up again seriously in mid-2004, after a long time of not playing. At the beginning of 2006 I restarted lessons, and bought a new grand piano.

The passions, whether violent or not, must never be expressed disgustingly, and music, even in the most terrible context, must never insult the ear, but even there must give pleasure, i.e. must always remain music.
W.A.Mozart

Historical Wargaming

My main wargaming interest is the ancient era (including the dark ages), using 15mm figures.

If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving a tapestry, he'll never do any good at all.
William Morris

3D Modelling

I have recently become interested in 3D computer modelling with the open source program Blender.

Those who assert that the mathematical sciences have nothing to say about the good or the beautiful are mistaken. The chief forms of the beautiful are order, symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences especially investigate.
Aristotle

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