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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. Publius Cornelius Tacitus		Monday Mar 31, 2025
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About Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

	Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
	(1657-1757) Preface sur l'Utilité des Mathématiques et de la Physique, 1729 - French man of letters, author.

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Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

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