• Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.

    G. H. Hardy: Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity.
    G. H. Hardy (1992). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.86, Cambridge University Press