The Mathematician Who Pursues His Studies Without

A Movement That We Will To Execute Is Never More Than A Represented Movement, And Appears In A Different Domain From That Of The Executed Movement, Which Always Takes Place When The Image Is Vivid Enough.

Many An Article That I Myself Penned Twenty Years Ago Impresses Me Now As Something Quite Foreign To Myself.

Science Itself, Therefore, May Be Regarded As A Minimal Problem, Consisting Of The Completest Possible Presentment Of Facts With The Least Possible Expenditure Of Thought.

All This, The Positive And Physical Essence Of Mechanics, Which Makes Its Chief And Highest Interest For A Student Of Nature, Is In Existing Treatises Completely Buried And Concealed Beneath A Mass Of Technical Considerations.

I Once Knew An Otherwise Excellent Teacher Who Compelled His Students To Perform All Their Demonstrations With Incorrect Figures, On The Theory That It Was The Logical Connection Of The Concepts, Not The Figure, That Was Essential.