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"Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."
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"The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry."
"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."
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"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."
"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
"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."
"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."
"Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house."
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