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Doubt Everything Or Believe Everything: These Are Two Equally Convenient Strategies. With Either We Dispense With The Need For Reflection.

Mathematics Has A Threefold Purpose. It Must Provide An Instrument For The Study Of Nature. But This Is Not All: It Has A Philosophical Purpose, And, I Daresay, An Aesthetic Purpose.

All That We Can Hope From These Inspirations, Which Are The Fruits Of Unconscious Work, Is To Obtain Points Of Departure For Such Calculations. As For The Calculations Themselves, They Must Be Made In The Second Period Of Conscious Work Which Follows The Inspiration, And In Which The Results Of The Inspiration Are Verified And The Consequences Deduced.‎

A Cat Is Witty, He Has Nerve, He Knows How To Do Precisely The Right Thing At The Right Moment.

The Aim Of Science Is Not Things Themselves, As The Dogmatists In Their Simplicity Imagine, But The Relation Between Things.