 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1905 - 564 lapas
...work on esthetics, " Ueber Schonheit und Geschmack in der Malerei." P. 190. // is the very same taste. "Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth...perfection such as only the greatest art can show" (Bertrand Russell, The Study of Mathematics ) . P. 195. The Sacrifice of Silenus. Probably the revel... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1910 - 202 lapas
...him know no mathematics, and regard his opinion upon this question as merely a curious aberration. Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth,...greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltaticm, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is... | |
 | Great Britain. Board of Education - 1912 - 1044 lapas
...the symbolisation of Mathematics, and once their eyes are open they may come to see something of its beauty — " a beauty cold and austere, like " that...perfection such as " only the greatest art can show."* ER GWATKIN. * Russell (Bertrand), op. cit., p. 73. THE PLACE OF MATHEMATICS IN THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS... | |
 | Sir Francis Edward Younghusband - 1912 - 210 lapas
...appreciates the stern sublimity of the mountains ; and in mathematics, likewise, according to some, not only truth, but supreme beauty - — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection — is to be found, as surely as in poetry. In... | |
 | Great Britain. Board of Education - 1912 - 632 lapas
...the symbolisation of Mathematics, and once their eyes are open they may come to see something of its beauty — "a beauty cold and austere, like " that of sculpture, without appeal to an}- part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, " yet sublimely... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - 1917 - 746 lapas
...EDUCATION By EDWARD J. DENT Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without...our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of paintings or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest... | |
 | Clarence Herbert Hamilton - 1916 - 100 lapas
...modern mind experiences its mystical moment in values of truth and beauty. "Mathematics," he says, "rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme...cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure and capable of a stern perfection such... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1922 - 234 lapas
...real experience. Mr. Bertrand Russell has told our own generation afresh, in this connexion, that ' mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth...— a beauty cold and austere like that of sculpture . . . yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - 1923 - 406 lapas
...lying beyond the limits of the canvas." " Mathematics, rightly viewed," says Bertrand Russell again, "possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. . . . The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone... | |
 | Columbia University. Department of Philosophy - 1925 - 422 lapas
...all contemporaries he who shares most deeply and completely the mathematician's faith of Malebranche: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth,...sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection 5B III. 405, 406, Oeuv. loExodut III, 14 Quoted Oeuv. I, 29. such as only the greatest art can show.... | |
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure,... 
