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- Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.
- The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes…
- There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.
- Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.
- Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be replaced…
- Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has…
- One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.
- 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…
- Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.
- We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.
- No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
- Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a…
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