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James Joseph Sylvester Quotes: 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 human intelligence.
         

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 human intelligence.


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Mathematics is the music of reason.

Mathematics is the music of reason.



The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.



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

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



A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.

A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river.



Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.

Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.



As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.



The object of pure Mathematic (is) that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

The object of pure Mathematic (is) that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.



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.

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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