Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.