The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. — Clifford Geertz
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Clifford Geertz : American Scientist
Born: August 23, 1926
Died: October 30, 2006
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