So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment.
Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble and v… - James Joseph Sylvester
Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on the feeble and v…
- James Joseph Sylvester
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 laws of h… - James Joseph Sylvester
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 laws of h…
Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred. - James Joseph Sylvester
Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.
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… - James Joseph Sylvester
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…
Mathematics is the music of reason. - James Joseph Sylvester
Mathematics is the music of reason.
There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to… - James Joseph Sylvester
There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like this, seems to…
If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus… - James Joseph Sylvester
If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus…
A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river. - James Joseph Sylvester
A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.
I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study of Mathematics. An eloqu… - 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 eloqu…
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