Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics The exactness is a fake.Alfred North Whitehead
The progress of Science consists in observing interconnections and in showing with a patient ingenuity that the events of this ever-shifting world are but examples of a few general relations, called laws. To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
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The science of pure mathematics ... may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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