“A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.”
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: Dragon Blood
“Fashion as king is sometimes a very stupid ruler.”
Source: Mathematics: Queen and Servant of Science (1938), p. 146
Context: Fashion as king is sometimes a very stupid ruler. As was observed a little way back, the kernel of Plücker's theory of geometric dimensionality is that the dimensionality of a given space is not an absolute constant, but depends upon the elements, accepted as irreducible, in terms of which the space is described.
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