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"Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority."
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"Language makes infinite use of finite media."
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"This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys."
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"Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man."
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"Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn."
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"Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority."
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"That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality."
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"The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite."
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"There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite."
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"Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite."
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"The battered woman-for she wore a skirt-with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her side, stood singing of love-love which has lasted a million years, she sang, love which prevails, and millions of years ago, her lover, who had been dead these centuries, had walked, she crooned, with her in May; but in the course of ages, long as summer days, and flaming, she remembered, with nothing but red asters, he had gone; death's enormous sickle had swept those tremendous hills, and when at last she laid her hoary and immensely aged head on the earth, now become a mere cinder of ice, she implored the Gods to lay by her side a bunch of purple heather, there on her high burial place which the last rays of the last sun caressed; for then the pageant of the universe would be over."
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"If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing."
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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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"In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind."
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"A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter."
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"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."
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"If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws."
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"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 no objective existence."
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"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
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"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
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"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics."
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