Novalis Quote

There may be mathematicians of the first order who cannot make calculations. A man may be a great calculator, and yet never dream of mathematics.


Quoted in Panthea, The Reasoner, Eclectic Gatherings, Volume 6 1849 (p. 374)


There may be mathematicians of the first order who cannot make calculations. A man may be a great calculator, and yet never dream of mathematics.

There may be mathematicians of the first order who cannot make calculations. A man may be a great calculator, and yet never dream of mathematics.

There may be mathematicians of the first order who cannot make calculations. A man may be a great calculator, and yet never dream of mathematics.

There may be mathematicians of the first order who cannot make calculations. A man may be a great calculator, and yet never dream of mathematics.