"The object of pure physics is the unfolding……" — James Joseph Sylvester
"The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence."
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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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I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as…
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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 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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