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Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall…
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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow…
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He [William Harvey] did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with an undervalue.
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I have heard him [William Harvey] say, that after his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out, that he fell mightily…
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About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's…
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The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
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Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have…
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This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so…
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If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see…
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No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something…
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To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as…
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And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles…
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The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and…
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We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism…
— Ronald Fisher
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Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and…
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To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about…
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