“Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.
One of the chief duties of a mathematician in acting as an advisor to scientists is to discourage them from expecting too much of mathematicians.”

— Norbert Wiener

As quoted in Comic Sections (1993) by D MacHale

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American mathematician 1894–1964

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