"Mathematics is the second-cheapest department: all they need is desks, pencils, paper, and wastebackets. Philosophy is even cheaper; they don't even need the wastebackets."
The philosophers, of course, insist this is because they don't make mistakes. ;)
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Date: 2007-08-31 12:33 am (UTC)"Mathematics is the second-cheapest department: all they need is desks, pencils, paper, and wastebackets. Philosophy is even cheaper; they don't even need the wastebackets."
The philosophers, of course, insist this is because they don't make mistakes. ;)