"It is possible for a mathematician to be……" — John Edensor Littlewood

"It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possible more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.)"

John Edensor Littlewood

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