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There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.

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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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