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A few observations and much reasoning leads to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. Alexis Carrel		Wednesday Jul 29, 2026
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About 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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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.

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

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