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.Henri Poincare
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.
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Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.
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A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.
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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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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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