It often happens that the pursuit of the beautiful and appropriate, or, as it may be otherwise expressed, the endeavor after the perfect, is rewarded with a new insight into the true.


The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester, (Volume 2), Separation of the Roots of an Algebraical Equation (p. 544)

James Joseph Sylvester Quotes

It often happens that the pursuit of the beautiful and appropriate, or, as it may be otherwise expressed, the endeavor after the perfect, is rewarded ...

It often happens that the pursuit of the beautiful and appropriate, or, as it may be otherwise expressed, the endeavor after the perfect, is rewarded ...

It often happens that the pursuit of the beautiful and appropriate, or, as it may be otherwise expressed, the endeavor after the perfect, is rewarded ...

It often happens that the pursuit of the beautiful and appropriate, or, as it may be otherwise expressed, the endeavor after the perfect, is rewarded ...