Quote#Science & Reason
The ability to imagine relations is one of the most indispensable…
Quote byJohn Fiske · 1842–1901
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Darwinism, and Other Essays, rev. ed. (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1885) XIV. "University Reform", p. 296.
English (original)
The ability to imagine relations is one of the most indispensable conditions of all precise thinking. No subject can be named, in the investigation of which it is not imperatively needed; but it can nowhere else be so thoroughly acquired as in the study of mathematics.
— John Fiske
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