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Astronomy and mathematics were in their time regarded as inseparable. With the succeeding generation, however, the tendency to specializeation manifests itself.
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.
The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.
The greatest mat... (more Felix Klein quotes)
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