James Joseph Sylvester Quotes

"May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life."
- James Joseph Sylvester
(Related: Life, Music, Dream, Mathematics, May, Reason, Sense)

"The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry."
- James Joseph Sylvester
(Related: Geometry, Study)

"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."
- James Joseph Sylvester
(Related: Intelligence, Laws, Mathematics, Physics, World)