The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypothesis, is like the art of decyphering, in which an ingenious conjecture greatly shortens the road.
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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
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In symbols one observes an advantage in discovery which is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it then indeed the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished.
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about him It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
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Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.
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The imaginary number is a fine and wonderful recourse of the divine spirit, almost an amphibian between being and not being.
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