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Something more than impeccable logic is required in mathematics. An expert logician will not necessarily be a passable mathematician for all his skill in logic, any more than a scholarly prosodist will be a respectable poet for all his mastery of meter.

— Eric Temple Bell, Mathematics, Queen and Servant of Science (1952)

Source: https://archive.org/details/MathematicsQueenAndServantOfScience

Topics: mathematics