"What would mathematics have amounted to without the……" — David Eugene Smith
"What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge of imagination-of imagination which broke the roadway through the forest in order that cold logic might follow."
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