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Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible…
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Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in…
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It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The…
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I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.
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A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours,…
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In reality, the law always contains less than the fact itself, because it does not reproduce the fact as a whole but…
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Mathematics may be defined as the economy of counting. There is no problem in the whole of mathematics which cannot be solved…
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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire…
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Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances.
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The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and…
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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced…
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Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head…
— Voltaire
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,…
— G. H. Hardy
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Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
— William Rowan Hamilton
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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's…
— Ernest Dimnet
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
— Mikhail Lermontov
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Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing…
— Plutarch
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Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor,…
— Nikola Tesla
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
— Felix Klein
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It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but…
— Joseph Conrad
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Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I…
— Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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