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James Joseph Sylvester has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters…
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May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason?
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It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or…
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I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study…
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...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ...…
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The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious…
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Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up…
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The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used,…
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So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct…
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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of…
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The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.
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We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us…
— Sherry Turkle
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HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of…
— William Blackstone
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What am I drinking? NyQuil on the rocks, for when you're feeling sick but sociable.
— Mitch Hedberg
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I'm not comfortable with getting a job by being at the right Hollywood party; I'm not a terribly sociable creature.
— Mary-Louise Parker
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I'm not a people person. I'm not sociable. I have been and I can be, but not as a general rule.
— John Simm
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The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It’s like…
— Ben Daniels
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Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it…
— Demosthenes
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Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.
— William Shakespeare
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You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people.…
— Christa Wolf
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In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is…
— Virginia Graham
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To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my…
— Tony Abbott
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