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The prejudice that the scientist's search for the truth shall be free from emotion, from pettiness, from the passions of the world has been nurtured for over a century by biographers whose faith in science was too weak. [...] ... the younger generations, made prematurely street-wise (not, alas, more intelligent) by fifty years of television, will laugh at the crude obfuscations of mealy-mouthed biographers. -- Gian-Carlo Rota