“Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants”

— Percival Lowell , book Mars and its Canals

Preface
Mars and its Canals (1906)
Context: Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.

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American astronomer 1855–1916

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