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Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.
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Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in…
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I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the…
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The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired…
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Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of…
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The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.
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It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists…
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Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains…
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Fertility of imagination and abundance of guesses at the truth are among the first requisites of discovery.
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It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.
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Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.
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As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be…
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Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than…
— G. H. Hardy
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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her…
— Kate Chopin
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who…
— Bobby Fischer
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
— Arthur Koestler
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For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in…
— Unknown Author
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Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion…
— Alfred Binet
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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
— Bobby Fischer
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Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess…
— Max Euwe
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The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never…
— Albert Einstein
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There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely…
— Lisa Lane
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