"I know, indeed, and can conceive of no……" — James Joseph Sylvester
"I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An eloquent mathematician must, from the nature of things, ever remain as rare a phenomenon as a talking fish, and it is certain that the more anyone gives himself up to the study of oratorical effect the less will he find himself in a fit state to mathematicize."
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James Joseph Sylvester
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13 Quotes by James Joseph Sylvester
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What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos,…
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Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the…
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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…
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...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than…
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The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces,…
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Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or…
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The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines…
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So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of…
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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics…
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The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.
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May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels…
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