Clifford Geertz quote

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz
Born: Aug 23, 1926
Died: Oct 30, 2006

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