"It is highly regrettable that some of the highest qualities of the human mind, such as intuition and direct apprehension, have been banned from our schools and have been overwhelmed by abstract and impersonal mathematical formulas... The essential part of the design of a building consists in conceiving and proportioning its structural system... then and only then can we and should we apply the formulas of mathematical theory of elasticity to specify with greater accuracy its resisting elements."
Pier Luigi Nervi
Structures
