"The early study of Euclid made me a…" — James Joseph Sylvester

"The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry."

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

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More Early Quotes

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Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even… — Marcel Achard
The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. — Julian Assange
I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel… — David Attenborough
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was… — Chinua Achebe
I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. — Margaret Atwood
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka. — Margaret Atwood
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under… — Margaret Atwood
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen
I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious. — Paul Auster
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane. — Irving Babbitt
Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and… — Lester Bangs

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