E. W. Hobson Quote

A great department of thought must have its own inner life, however transcendent may be the importance of its relations to the outside. No department of science, least of all one requiring so high a degree of mental concentration as Mathematics, can be developed entirely, or even mainly, with a view to applications outside its own range.

Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, N.S. Volume 32, Number 821, September 23, 1910 (p. 389)

A great department of thought must have its own inner life, however transcendent may be the importance of its relations to the outside. No department ...

A great department of thought must have its own inner life, however transcendent may be the importance of its relations to the outside. No department ...

A great department of thought must have its own inner life, however transcendent may be the importance of its relations to the outside. No department ...

A great department of thought must have its own inner life, however transcendent may be the importance of its relations to the outside. No department ...