Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

- Henry John Stephen Smith

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtle…

- Henry John Stephen Smith

If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted to make) it is probable that n…

- Henry John Stephen Smith

Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science and…

- Henry John Stephen Smith

It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of …

- Henry John Stephen Smith