Quote#Science & Reason
The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which…
Quote byBenjamin Peirce · 1809–1880
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Linear Associative Algebra (1882), § 2..
English (original)
The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its appropriate mathematics. In every form of material manifestation, there is a corresponding form of human thought, so that the human mind is as wide in its range of thought as the physical universe in which it thinks.
— Benjamin Peirce
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