James Joseph Sylvester Quotes

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• What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than a universe. It…
• Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed…
• May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason?
• It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or other of his…
• I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An…
• ...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this,…
• The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of its…
• Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of…
• The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used, but these have…
• So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what…
• The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws…
• The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.
• May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music:…

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