Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
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Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
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If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.
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Mathematicians are born, not made.
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Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means . . . .
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