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<blockquote>I have always felt that, if one day someone came up with a contradiction in mathematics, I would just say, "Well, those crazy logicians are at it again," and go about my business as I was going the day before.<ref>Vaughan Jones. See {{harvnb|Casacuberta|Castellet|1992|loc=page 91}}.</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>I have always felt that, if one day someone came up with a contradiction in mathematics, I would just say, "Well, those crazy logicians are at it again," and go about my business as I was going the day before.<ref>Vaughan Jones. See {{harvnb|Casacuberta|Castellet|1992|loc=page 91}}.</ref></blockquote>


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I have always felt that, if one day someone came up with a contradiction in mathematics, I would just say, "Well, those crazy logicians are at it again," and go about my business as I was going the day before.[1]

  1. ↑ Vaughan Jones. See Casacuberta & Castellet 1992, page 91.

References

Feynman, Richard (1995), The character of physical law (twenty second printing ed.), the MIT press, ISBN 0 262 56003 8.

Gowers, Timothy, ed. (2008), The Princeton companion to mathematics, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-11880-2.

Mathias, Adrian (2002), "A term of length 4,523,659,424,929", Synthese 133 (1/2): 75–86. (Also here.)

Casacuberta, C & M Castellet, eds. (1992), Mathematical research today and tomorrow: Viewpoints of seven Fields medalists, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 1525, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-56011-4.

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