Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.”
Referring to his rival Raymond Poincaré, as quoted in Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World (2003) by Margaret MacMillan, p. 33
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