Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.
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By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and, in effect, increases the mental power of the race.
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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