One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
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Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.
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A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.
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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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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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