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"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
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"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."

"A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature."

"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."

"Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority."

"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful."

"A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations."

"The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law."

"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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