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

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Source : James Joseph Sylvester (2005). “The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester”, p.91, American Mathematical Soc.

James Joseph Sylvester

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“And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”
“I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.”
“Your past is not your past if it's still impacting your present.”
“What fun it is to generalize in the privacy of a note book. It is as I imagine waltzing on ice might be. A great delicious sweep in one direction, taking you your full strength, and then with no trouble at all, an equally delicious sweep in the opposite direction. My note book does not help me think, but it eases my crabbed heart.”
“We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.”
“Those Europeans, they know how to negotiate.”
“[On Senator Everett Dirksen:] His great enemy was boredom and he won every engagement.”
“Often the thought of pain is actually worse that the pain itself.”

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