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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

Clifford Geertz Biography

  Nationality: American
Type: Scientist

Born: August 23, 1926
Death: October 30, 2006
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