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The true system of the World h...

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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If one looks at all closely at...

If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even our topics of conversation, it is difficult not to see that a very remarkable change in several respects has come into our ideas; a change which, by its rapidity, seems to us to foreshadow another still greater. Time alone will tell the aim, the nature and limits of this revolution, whose inconveniences and advantages our posterity will recognize better than we can.

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There are only two kinds of ce...

There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.

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In England it was enough that ...

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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Just go on..and faith will soo...

Just go on..and faith will soon return.

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I am worn out by the insults a...

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

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High office, is like a pyramid...

High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit Ђ' reptiles and eagles.

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To someone who could grasp the...

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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Push on and faith will catch u...

Push on and faith will catch up with you.

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Geometry, which should only ob...

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 alte

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Just go on . . . and faith wil...

Just go on . . . and faith will soon return.

Jean DAlembert 20 quotes

Gaming is the destruction of a...

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

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A philosopher is a fool who to...

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

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Just go on . . . and faith wil...

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

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One magnitude is said to be th...

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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Music that paints nothing is o...

Music that paints nothing is only noise.

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The more wit we have, the less...

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

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Thus metaphysics and mathemati...

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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Algebra is generous; she often...

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

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D'Alembert was always surround...

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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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....