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“It is a testimony to the power of education that classical mechanics could operate for so long under a mistaken conception. Teaching and research concentrated on integrable systems, each feeding the other, until in the end we had no longer the tools nor the interest for studying nonintegrable systems.”
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 4, From Computation To Geometry, p. 84.
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