February 4, 2007

Charles Darwin

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.

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  • It’s actually Lord Bowen:

    “When I hear of an ‘equity’ in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man
    in a dark room – looking for a black hat – which isn’t there. ”

    Quoted in in “Pie Powder”, Being Dust from the Law Courts: Collected and Recollected on the Western Circuit, by a Circuit Tramp (1911) by John Alderson Foote

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