Quote: neither calculations nor machines can replace the mathematician. They can find order but not unexpected order

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What we have just said suffices to show how vain it would be to seek to replace by any mechanical procedure the free initiative of the mathematician. To obtain a result of real value, it is not enough to grind out calculations, or to have a machine to put things in order; it is not order alone, it is unexpected order, which is worth while. The machine may gnaw on the crude fact, the soul of the fact will always escape it.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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Quote: the soul of a fact is its unexpected order

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