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Robert Musil on Mathematics

1880–1942 Austria

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Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.

Mathematical man (1913)

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson … of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

Mathematical man (1913)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Musil (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.