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Thought and Reason
Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.3.1 · 40 votes · 146 reads
Thought and Reason
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.4.1 · 42 votes · 17 reads
Science and Technology
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.3.7 · 43 votes · 126 reads
Thought and Reason
It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.3.7 · 25 votes · 13 reads
Science and Technology
It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.3.3 · 15 votes · 27 reads
Science and Technology
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.4.5 · 25 votes · 135 reads
Science and Technology
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.4.1 · 24 votes · 93 reads
Science and Technology
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.4.1 · 19 votes · 136 reads
Science and Technology
Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.4.8 · 7 votes · 12 reads
Science and Technology
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.3.4 · 51 votes · 163 reads
Thought and Reason
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.4.4 · 34 votes · 74 reads