"When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system."
— John von Neumann

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in John von Neumann, 1903-1957 (1958) by John C. Oxtoby and B. J. Pettis, p. 128