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• The more wit we have, the less satisfied we are with it.

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  Wit, Satisfied

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• Sólo hay dos tipos de conocimiento cierto: La conciencia de nuestra propia existencia y las verdades de las matemáticas.

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  Two, Kind, Awareness

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• Un filósofo es un necio que se atormenta mientras vive, para que se hable de él después de muerto.

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  Alive, Fool, Philosopher

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• Sigue adelante... y pronto volverá la fe.

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  Math, Goes On, Return

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• El alto cargo es como una pirámide; sólo dos tipos de animales alcanzan la cima: los reptiles y las águilas.

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  Animal, Eagles, Two

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• Music that paints nothing is only noise.

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  Noise, Paint

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• Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.

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  Math, Giving, Algebra

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• Push on and faith will catch up with you.

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• The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected...Everything has been discussed and analysed, or at least mentioned.

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  Book, World, Has Beens

  1759 Elements of Philosophy.

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• To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.

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  Science, Unique, Mystery

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• Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of those delicate spirits who are detractors of mathematics for saying this . . . . The imagination in a mathematician who creates makes no less difference than in a poet who invents. . . . Of all the great men of antiquity, Archimedes may be the one who most deserves to be placed beside Homer.

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  Math, Men, Differences

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• In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.

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  France, England, Newton

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• Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

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  Gambling, Modesty, Dignity

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• Si se observa con atención la mitad de nuestro propio siglo, los acontecimientos que nos ocupan, nuestras costumbres, nuestros logros y hasta nuestros temas de conversación, es difícil no ver que un cambio muy notable en varios aspectos ha llegado a nuestras ideas; un cambio que, por su rapidez, nos parece presagiar otro aún mayor. Sólo el tiempo dirá el objetivo, la naturaleza y los límites de esta revolución, cuyos inconvenientes y ventajas nuestra posteridad reconocerá mejor que nosotros.

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  Ideas, Achievement, Events

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• I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

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  Vexation, Insult, Worn

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• One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.

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  May, Limits, Firsts

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• Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.

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  Friendship, Faith, Goes On

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• D'Alembert was always surrounded by controversy. ... he was the lightning rod which drew sparks from all the foes of the philosophes. ... Unfortunately he carried this... pugnacity into his scientific research and once he had entered a controversy, he argued his cause with vigour and stubbornness. He closed his mind to the possibility that he might be wrong.

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  Mind, Lightning, Research

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• Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less real, and we are surprised to arrive, notwithstanding a painful labour, only at a result contradicted by nature; as if after having disguised it, cut it short or altered it, a purely mechanical combination could give it back to us.

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  Real, Cutting, Giving

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