"Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of……" — Leonhard Euler
"Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena."
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Leonhard Euler
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14 Quotes by Leonhard Euler
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If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not…
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Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.
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Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.
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Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
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For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.
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Now I will have less distraction.
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After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved…
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... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very…
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Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ...…
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The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from…
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Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we…
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For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at…
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