"The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe."

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Source : Karl Pearson (1900). “The grammar of science”, p.505, Рипол Классик

Karl Pearson

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“Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.”
“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”
“Our government has no integrity!”

Source : "24/ Day 5: 12:00 a.m.-1:00 a.m". www.imdb.com. 2006.
“Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.”
“In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.”
“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.”
“When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past."”
“Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.”

Source : Philip Roth (1989). “The facts: a novelist's autobiography”, Vintage

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