"One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers, that we get more out of them than was originally put into them."
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Heinrich Hertz, as quoted in Morris Kline (1980). Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty. Oxford University Press, p. 338.
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