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Comment author: harshhpareek 03 August 2012 04:22:53PM * 6 points [-]

To develop mathematics, one must always labor to substitute ideas for calculations.

-- Dirichlet

(Don't have source, but the following paper quotes it : Prolegomena to Any Future Qualitative Physics )