So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the r…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 52, 1799.
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