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Mathematics May Humbly Help In The Market-place, But It Also Reaches To The Stars.
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Mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it
also reaches to the stars.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull
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Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
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