Charles Davies (professor) Quote

The processes of mathematical science serve to give mental unity and wholeness. They impart that knowledge which applies the means of crystallization to a chaos of scattered particulars, and discovers at once the general law, if there be one, which forms a connecting link between them.


The Logic and Utility of Mathematics; With the Best Methods of Instruction Explained and Illustrated, Introduction (pp. 14—15), A.S. Barnes & Burr Co. 1860


The processes of mathematical science serve to give mental unity and wholeness. They impart that knowledge which applies the means of crystallization ...

The processes of mathematical science serve to give mental unity and wholeness. They impart that knowledge which applies the means of crystallization ...

The processes of mathematical science serve to give mental unity and wholeness. They impart that knowledge which applies the means of crystallization ...

The processes of mathematical science serve to give mental unity and wholeness. They impart that knowledge which applies the means of crystallization ...