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Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider the formula not the fact as the physical reality.

Lord Kelvin
Reality, Progress, Facts
"Treatise on Natural Philosophy". Book by Lord Kelvin and Peter Guthrie Tait, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1867.
Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider the formula not the fact as the physical reality.