• What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

    Benjamin Franklin: What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?
    Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1836). “Works: containing several political and historical tracts not included in any former edition ...”, p.69