Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
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