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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 of Mathematics. An…

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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…
Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters…
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…
I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study…
...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ...…
The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious…
Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up…
The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used,…
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct…
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of…
The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

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