Intelligence Quote by James Joseph Sylvester Download Open image “Mathematics is the music of reason.” — James Joseph Sylvester ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intelligence Mathematics Music Reason
“Mathematics is the music of reason . To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion—not because it makes no sense to you, but because you gave it sense and you still don't understand what your creation is up to; to have a break-through idea; to… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears. — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today. — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred. — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
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 parts, the infinite hierarchy and absolute evidence of the truths with which it is concerned, these, and such like, are the surest grounds of the title of mathematics to human regard, and would remain unimpeached… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
“Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it need only patience to ransack; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce to possessions, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes; it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share
The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
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 to have on a Browning or a Tennyson. Indeed it seems to me that an exact homology exists between painting and poetry on the one hand and modem chemistry and modem algebra on the other.… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share
The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used, but these… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
If you can do anything for love there's no reason you can't do everything to someone you love. — Jayjay Guillermo Copy Share Image
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“The mystery of the world is revealed only to the person who can look upon the material world with his physical eyes and simultaneously… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
An ex is an ex for a reason, they are an EXample of what you don't want in your future. — Alexia Copy Share Image
“When it comes to smarts, adolescents like Jesse have plenty. What they lack, however, are some of the brain-based skills that we all need to plan and direct activities, to regulate behavior, and to make efficient and effective use of these smarts. The trouble does not show up in math or reading; rather, it shows up when they need to… — Richard Guare Copy Share
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
“A smart person learns from his mistakes, but a truly wise person learns from the mistakes of others.” — Ken Schramm Copy Share Image
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