They who study mathematiks only to fix their minds, and render them the steadyer to apply to all other things, as there are many who profess to do, are as wise as those who think by rowing boats, to learn to swim.


Prose Observations (Oxford: 1979), p. 4

Samuel Butler Quotes

They who study mathematiks only to fix their minds, and render them the steadyer to apply to all other things, as there are many who profess to do,...

They who study mathematiks only to fix their minds, and render them the steadyer to apply to all other things, as there are many who profess to do,...

They who study mathematiks only to fix their minds, and render them the steadyer to apply to all other things, as there are many who profess to do,...

They who study mathematiks only to fix their minds, and render them the steadyer to apply to all other things, as there are many who profess to do,...