There Is One Comforting Conclusion Which Is Easy For A Real Mathematician.

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There is one comforting conclusion which is easy for a real mathematician.
Real mathematics has no effects on war. No one has yet discovered any warlike
purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems
unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.
-- G. H. Hard, "A Mathematician's Apology", 1940

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