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  • Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

    Henry John Stephen Smith
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    Quoted in Alexander Macfarlane, Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century (1916). "Pure mathematics; may it never be of use to any man!" is cited as the toast of the Mathematical Society of England in Science, 10 Dec. 1886.
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