I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they promptly say, 'Oh, I see. That's how it must be.' This is a sign that they explain it to themselves from within their own system.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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