The end of very much mathematics and of the work of many eminent men is the simple and, as far as may be, accurate description of things in the world around us, of which we become conscious through our senses.


The Nature of Mathematics (Revised edition), Chapter IV (p. 73)

Philip Jourdain Quotes

The end of very much mathematics and of the work of many eminent men is the simple and, as far as may be, accurate description of things in the world ...

The end of very much mathematics and of the work of many eminent men is the simple and, as far as may be, accurate description of things in the world ...

The end of very much mathematics and of the work of many eminent men is the simple and, as far as may be, accurate description of things in the world ...

The end of very much mathematics and of the work of many eminent men is the simple and, as far as may be, accurate description of things in the world ...