For such [mathematical] exercises of the mind pursued with determination render it averse from poetry, and all the imaginative study of human affairs, preclude it from appreciating all the loveliness of life, leave it untouched by the sanguine emotions, and quite indifferent to the glamour of the arts, or to the divine gift of taste.

The Idolatry of Science, Chapter IV (p. 21), John Lane Co. 1920