George Darwin Quote

A mathematical argument is, after all, only organized common sense, and it is well that men of science should not always expound their work to the few behind a veil of technical language, but should from time to time explain to a larger public the reasoning which lies behind their mathematical notation.

The Tides and Kindred Phenomena in the Solar System, Preface (p. v), Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1898