James Joseph Sylvester Quote

I think it would be desirable that this form of word [mathematics] should be reserved for the applications of the science, and that we should use mathematic in the singular to denote the science itself, in the same way as we speak of logic, rhetoric, or (own sister to algebra) music.

Collected Mathematical Papers, Presidential Address to the British Association, Exeter British, Association Report (1869), Volume 2 (p. 659)