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Prinz Kraft
(2 Jan 1827 - 16 Jan 1892)
Prussian writer and military officer who wrote a number of classic books on military topics, such as artillery, infantry, and Strategy. During the Franco-Prussian war, he was a major-general in charge of an artillery brigade.
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Science Quotes by Prinz Kraft (1 quote)
Mathematics is indeed dangerous in that it absorbs students to such a degree that it dulls their senses to everything else.
— Prinz Kraft
While a student, an observation made about his teacher, Professor Karl Schellbach. Quoted, without citation, in Howard W. Eves, Mathematical Circles Adieu, (1977).
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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