_Lectures on Science, Philosophy and Art (New York, 1908), p. 6._ =736.= It is not so long since, during one of the meetings of the Association, one of the leading English newspapers briefly described a sitting of this Section in the words, “Saturday morning was devoted to pure mathematics, and so there was nothing of any general interest:” still, such toleration is better than undisguised and ill-informed hostility.--FORSYTH, A. R. _Report of the 67th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science._ =737.= The science [of mathematics] has grown to such vast proportion that probably no living mathematician can claim to have achieved its mastery as a whole.--WHITEHEAD, A. N. _An Introduction to Mathematics (New York, 1911), p. 252._ =738.= There is perhaps no science of which the development has been carried so far, which requires greater concentration and will power, and which by the abstract height of the qualities required tends more to separate one from daily life. _Provisional Report of the American Subcommittee of the International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics; Bulletin American Society (1910), p. 97._ =739.= Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics, that it can never be fully learnt.--WALTON, ISAAC. _The Complete Angler, Preface._ =740.= The flights of the imagination which occur to the pure mathematician are in general so much better described in his formulæ than in words, that it is not remarkable to find the subject treated by outsiders as something essentially cold and uninteresting--... the only successful attempt to invest mathematical reasoning with a halo of glory--that made in this section by Prof. Sylvester--is known to a comparative few, .... --TAIT, P. G. _Presidential Address British Association for the Advancement of Science (1871); Nature Vol. 4, p. 271._ CHAPTER VIII THE MATHEMATICIAN =801.= The real mathematician is an enthusiast _per se_. Without enthusiasm no mathematics.--NOVALIS. _Schriften (Berlin, 1901), Zweiter Teil, p. 223._ =802.= It is true that a mathematician, who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.--WEIERSTRASS. _Quoted by Mittag-Leffler; Compte rendu du deuxième congrês international des mathématiciens (Paris, 1902), p. 149._