James Joseph Sylvester Quote
It is the constant aim of the mathematician to reduce all his expressions to their lowest terms, to retrench every superfluous word and phrase, and to condense the Maximum of meaning into the Minimum of Language.
The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester (Volume 3), On Recent Discoveries in Mechanical Conversion of Motion, (pp. 72-73), University Press. 1904-1912
