The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.
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Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.
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The history of Western philosophy is, after all, no more than a series of footnotes to Plato's philosophy.
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I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. That would be claiming too much. But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming ... and a little mad.
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