Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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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• 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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