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One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
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It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.
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If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
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A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.
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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
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If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.
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Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
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Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.
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Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
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A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.
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Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
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