``... let me plead ... for the highest consideration to be given to the pursuit of pure knowledge as well as technical training, not neglecting mathematics, once called the Queen of the Sciences. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and the spirit of knowledge does not follow the quest for wealth and power; but the creation of new knowledge makes for the high repute of a nation, alike in the days when its influence is dominant and more in the distant days when its doings shall have been recorded on the scroll of time.''

__A. R. Forsyth, Mathematics in life and thought, Gateway to the Great Books - Mathematics