[806]. The mathematical method is the essence of mathematics. He who fully comprehends the method is a mathematician.—Novalis.
Schriften (Berlin, 1901), Zweiter Teil, p. 190.
[807]. He who is unfamiliar with mathematics [literally, he who is a layman in mathematics] remains more or less a stranger to our time.—Dillmann, E.
Die Mathematik die Fackelträgerin einer neuen Zeit (Stuttgart, 1889), p. 39.
[808]. Enlist a great mathematician and a distinguished Grecian; your problem will be solved. Such men can teach in a dwelling-house as well as in a palace. Part of the apparatus they will bring; part we will furnish. [Advice given to the Trustees of Johns Hopkins University on the choice of a professorial staff.]—Gilman, D. C.
Report of the President of Johns Hopkins University (1888), p. 29.
[809]. Persons, who have a decided mathematical talent, constitute, as it were, a favored class. They bear the same relation to the rest of mankind that those who are academically trained bear to those who are not.—Moebius, P. J.
Ueber die Anlage zur Mathematik (Leipzig, 1900), p. 4.
[810]. One may be a mathematician of the first rank without being able to compute. It is possible to be a great computer without having the slightest idea of mathematics.—Novalis.