"Most, if not all, of the great ideas of modern mathematics have had their origin in observation."
— Observation

January 1, 1970

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James Joseph Sylvester. "A Plea for the Mathematician," Nature, Vol. 1, p. 238; Collected Mathematical Papers, Vol. 2, pp. 655, 656.