| Stanisław Lem |
Feb. 13th, 2011|04:52 pm |
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[..] mathematics is the white cane in the hand of a blind man even without fully understanding the world of quanta, just like the blind man who uses the cane to feel his way; we feel our way toward the atom bomb or the laser. And when these are constructed and made to work, we can see that our mathematical cane must have been effective, since it led us to a given application. |
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