The modern, and to my mind the true, theory is that mathematics is the abstract form of the natural sciences; and that it is valuable as a training of the reasoning powers, not because it is abstract, but because it is a representative of actual things.


Mathematical Teaching and Its Modern Methods, Introduction (pp. 9-10), D.C. Heath & Co. 1887

Truman Henry Safford Quotes

The modern, and to my mind the true, theory is that mathematics is the abstract form of the natural sciences; and that it is valuable as a training...

The modern, and to my mind the true, theory is that mathematics is the abstract form of the natural sciences; and that it is valuable as a training...

The modern, and to my mind the true, theory is that mathematics is the abstract form of the natural sciences; and that it is valuable as a training...

The modern, and to my mind the true, theory is that mathematics is the abstract form of the natural sciences; and that it is valuable as a training...