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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

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Hermann Minkowski

Hermann Minkowski (June 22, 1864 - January 12, 1909) was a Lithuanian-born German mathematician, of Jewish descent, who created and developed the geometry of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.

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