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"Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."
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"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."

"The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry."
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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."

"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."

"It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details."

"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"

"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."
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