“But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should therefore study ancient writings, not so much in the hope of finding lost wisdom as in the hope of locating the origin of errors that have been, and still are, accepted truths.”

—  Carl Eckart

Source: Our Modern Idol: Mathematical Science (1984), p. 3.

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