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Tout notre raisonnement se re duit a' ce der au sentiment. All our reasoning comes down to surrendering to feeling.
Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.
Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork.
Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.
But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.
What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.
Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
An exquisitely complex shape now known as the Mandlebrot set has been called the most complex object in mathematics.
The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.
Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.
We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it
Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think
It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects.
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.
The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites.
Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.
I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.
Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.
An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.
The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours.
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind's labour.
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.
For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
I believe that the World Wide Web is, as a matter of fact, the noogenesis of the noosphere of the future. This is it!
"Interactive Decision Theory" would perhaps be a more descriptive name for the discipline usually called Game Theory.
Math is really about the human mind, about how people can think effectively, and why curiosity is quite a good guide.
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.
The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.
I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.
Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.