Talk With M. Hermite. He Never Evokes

Mathematical Discoveries, Small Or Great Are Never Born Of Spontaneous Generation They Always Presuppose A Soil Seeded With Preliminary Knowledge And Well Prepared By Labour, Both Conscious And Subconscious.

A Reality Completely Independent Of The Spirit That Conceives It, Sees It, Or Feels It, Is An Impossibility. A World So External As That, Even If It Existed, Would Be Forever Inaccessible To Us.

Why Is It That Showers And Even Storms Seem To Come By Chance, So That Many People Think It Quite Natural To Pray For Rain Or Fine Weather, Though They Would Consider It Ridiculous To Ask For An Eclipse By Prayer.

It Is Far Better To Foresee Even Without Certainty Than Not To Foresee At All.

It Is Not Order Only, But Unexpected Order, That Has Value.