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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

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Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

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A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

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Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.

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Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.

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One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

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Facts do not speak.

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If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.

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If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Mathematician

Born: April 29th, 1854

Died: July 17th, 1912

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