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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

E. T. Bell

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Das Streben nach hübschen Formeln und ordentlichen Theoremen kann zweifellos schnell zu einem dummen Laster entarten, ebenso wie das Streben nach strengen Allgemeinheiten, die so allgemein sind, dass sie nicht auf irgendetwas anwendbar sind.

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