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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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"Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority."
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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 past has infinite value if one learns from it."
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"Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man."
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"There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are 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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"Language makes infinite use of finite media."
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"That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality."
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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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"Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn."
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"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
Mathematicians
"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."
History
"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."
Earth
"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."
Deep
"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."
Geometry
"Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority."
Infinite
"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."
Cause
"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."
Certainty
"The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."
Experience
"A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations."
Mind
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