Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.


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A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

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