The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pur…

Samuel Johnson
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The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1820). The Rambler, p.74
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