James Joseph Sylvester Quotes:
Ocupation: Mathematician
Life: September 3, 1814 - March 15, 1897
Birthday: September 3
Death: March 15
[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and verification; and it affords a boundless scope for the exercise of the highest efforts of imagination and invention.
topic: Exercise, Imagination, Effort, Verification
