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Those Who Have Racked Their Brains To Discover New Proofs Have Perhaps Been Induced To Do So By A Compulsion They Could Not Quite Explain To Themselves. Instead Of Giving Us Their New Proofs They Should Have Explained To Us The Motivation That Constrained Them To Search For Them.
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Those Who Have Racked Their Brains To

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Those Who Have Racked Their Brains To Discover New Proofs Have Perhaps Been Induced To Do So By A Compulsion They Could Not Quite Explain To Themselves. Instead Of Giving Us Their New Proofs They Should Have Explained To Us The Motivation That Constrained Them To Search For Them.
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