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Mathematics Quotes by James Joseph Sylvester
- May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason?
- 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…
- 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…
- 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:…
More Mathematics Quotes
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
- In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. — Stefan Banach
- I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. — John Adams
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. — Ambrose Bierce
- When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole