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— Henry David Thoreau"The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics."
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Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied... For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
— G. H. Hardy
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