I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense.

— Charles Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)

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From his autobiography, as reprinted in The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin.

Topics: mathematics