=803.= The mathematician is perfect only in so far as he is a perfect being, in so far as he perceives the beauty of truth; only then will his work be thorough, transparent, comprehensive, pure, clear, attractive and even elegant. All this is necessary to resemble _Lagrange_.--GOETHE. _Wilhelm Meister’s Wanderjahre, Zweites Buch; Sprüche in Prosa; Natur, VI, 950._ =804.= A thorough advocate in a just cause, a penetrating mathematician facing the starry heavens, both alike bear the semblance of divinity.--GOETHE. _Wilhelm Meister’s Wanderjahre, Zweites Buch; Sprüche in Prosa; Natur, VI, 947._ =805.= Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.--ADAMS, HENRY. _A Letter to American Teachers of History (Washington, 1910), p. 169._ =806.= The mathematical method is the essence of mathematics. He who fully comprehends the method is a mathematician.--NOVALIS. _Schriften (Berlin, 1901), Zweiter Teil, p. 190._ =807.= He who is unfamiliar with mathematics [literally, he who is a layman in mathematics] remains more or less a stranger to our time.--DILLMANN, E. _Die Mathematik die Fackelträgerin einer neuen Zeit (Stuttgart, 1889), p. 39._ =808.= Enlist a great mathematician and a distinguished Grecian; your problem will be solved. Such men can teach in a dwelling-house as well as in a palace. Part of the apparatus they will bring; part we will furnish. [Advice given to the Trustees of Johns Hopkins University on the choice of a professorial staff.]--GILMAN, D. C. _Report of the President of Johns Hopkins University (1888), p. 29._ =809.= Persons, who have a decided mathematical talent, constitute, as it were, a favored class. They bear the same relation to the rest of mankind that those who are academically trained bear to those who are not.--MOEBIUS, P. J. _Ueber die Anlage zur Mathematik (Leipzig, 1900), p. 4._ =810.= One may be a mathematician of the first rank without being able to compute. It is possible to be a great computer without having the slightest idea of mathematics.--NOVALIS. _Schriften, Zweiter Teil (Berlin, 1901), p. 223._