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Just go on ... and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals. Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

Quote Author: Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

	Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
	(1717-1783) In P. J. Davis and R. Hersh The Mathematical Experience, Boston: Birkhäuser, 1981.

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

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.