“The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.”
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Source: Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There
Source: The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell
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