Susanne Langer Quote

Mathematicians are rarely practical people, or good observers of events. They are apt to be cloistered souls, like philosophers and theologians.


Philosophy in a New Key, Chapter I (p. 19), Harvard University Press. 1957


Mathematicians are rarely practical people, or good observers of events. They are apt to be cloistered souls, like philosophers and theologians.

Mathematicians are rarely practical people, or good observers of events. They are apt to be cloistered souls, like philosophers and theologians.

Mathematicians are rarely practical people, or good observers of events. They are apt to be cloistered souls, like philosophers and theologians.

Mathematicians are rarely practical people, or good observers of events. They are apt to be cloistered souls, like philosophers and theologians.