Tobias Dantzig Quote

His essays on the foundations of science are cases in point. They strike one as extemporaneous speeches rather than edited articles.... those who knew him best insisted that he rarely, if ever, would revise a manuscript, even if he was fully aware of its stylistic shortcomings.

Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis: Reflections on His Universe of Discourse (1954) - Ch. 1. The Iconoclast