❝The same thing cannot, however, be said about mathematics; for here we have the new method of thought, pure intellect, the very well‑spring of the times, the fons et origo of an unfathomable transformation.❞

— Robert #Musil • #DMOE
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_3#Transformations_of_Discourse

❝It is understandable that an engineer should be completely absorbed in his speciality, instead of pouring himself out into the freedom and vastness of the world of thought, even though his machines are being sent off to the ends of the earth; for he no more needs to be capable of applying to his own personal soul what is daring and new in the soul of his subject than a machine is in fact capable of applying to itself the differential calculus on which it is based.❞

— Robert #Musil • #DMOE