If Others Would But Reflect On Mathematical

Mathematics Is The Queen Of The Sciences.

Further, The Dignity Of The Science Itself Seems To Require That Every Possible Means Be Explored For The Solution Of A Problem So Elegant And So Celebrated.

If Others Would But Reflect On Mathematical Truths As Deeply And As Continuously As I Have, They Would Make My Discoveries.

His Second Motto: Thou, Nature, Art My Goddess; To Thy Laws My Services Are Bound.

As Is Well Known The Principle Of Virtual Velocities Transforms All Statics Into A Mathematical Assignment, And By D'alembert's Principle For Dynamics, The Latter Is Again Reduced To Statics. Although It Is Is Very Much In Order That In Gradual Training Of Science And In The Instruction Of The Individual The Easier Precedes The More Difficult, The Simple Precedes The More Complicated, The Special Precedes The General, Yet The Min, Once It Has Arrived At The Higher Standpoint, Demands The Reverse Process Whereby All Statics Appears Only As A Very Special Case Of Mechanics.