Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool. (Hans Christian von Baeyer)

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

Hans Christian von Baeyer

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