"Persons, who have a decided mathematical talent, constitute, as it were, a favored class. They bear the same relation to the rest of mankind that those who are academically trained bear to those who are not."
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Ueber die Anlage zur Mathematik (Leipzig, 1900), p. 4. Reported in Robert Edouard Moritz (ed.) Memorabilia Mathematica, or, The Philomath's Quotation-Book (New York: The Macmillan Co, 1914), p. 122, no. 809
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