“The evolution of scientific thought is inseparable from the history of man's efforts to resolve the perplexities of his own existence.”

—  Tobias Dantzig

Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis: Reflections on His Universe of Discourse (1954), Ch. 2. The Age of Innocence

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