I'm reminded of the famous 1934 exchange between mathematician David Hilbert and the Nazi Minister of Science, Education & Culture, Bernhard Rust.
Rust asked how the famed mathematics department at the University of Göttingen was doing. Hilbert replied that it effectively no longer existed.
Rust asked how the famed mathematics department at the University of Göttingen was doing. Hilbert replied that it effectively no longer existed.
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Laura Helmuth
Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.
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