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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms…
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Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to…
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It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
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In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most…
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It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That…
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Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature…
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Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all…
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I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion…
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It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment…
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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
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What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance…
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Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
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The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors…
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God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with…
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