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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."
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"Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."
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"It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry."
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"Projective geometry is all geometry."
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"The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry."
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"Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts."
Science
"How is an error possible in mathematics?"
Error
"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."
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"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."
Ideas
"The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."
Experience
"Mathematicians are born, not made."
Mathematicians
"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
Life
"Science is facts."
Science
"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
Mathematicians
"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."
Nature
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