"Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case."

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Source : "Vorlesungen über analytische Mechanik" edited by Helmut Pulte, 1996.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

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“Apparently I had lunch with Johnny Depp when I was three months old.”
“For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it.”
“Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.213, Penguin
“Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.44, Simon and Schuster
“When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother,”

Source : P. W. Singer (2009). “Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century”, p.29, Penguin
“There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken--the manner, the place and the time.”
“I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.”
“Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.”

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