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Mathematicians are like Frenchman: whatever you say to them they t

Mathematicians are like Frenchman: whatever you say to them they translate Into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different. – Johann von Goethe

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I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow. – Samuel Johnson

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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. – Antonin Artaud

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