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• Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the…
• It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the…
• For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful…
• The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is the life…
• True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men.…
• If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it…
• It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
• Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were…
• [For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its…
• Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
• It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
• It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

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