George Santayana Quote
It is a pleasant surprise to him [the mathematician], and an added problem, if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them; much as if a composer found that the sailors could have better when singing his songs.
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy, Chapter III (pp. 50-51), Books for Libraries Press. 1967
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