Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Quote

The only good science is the knowledge of facts, and mathematical truths are only truths of definition, and completely arbitrary, quite unlike physical truths.


In: L. Ducros, Les Encyclopedistes (p. 326)


The only good science is the knowledge of facts, and mathematical truths are only truths of definition, and completely arbitrary, quite unlike...

The only good science is the knowledge of facts, and mathematical truths are only truths of definition, and completely arbitrary, quite unlike...

The only good science is the knowledge of facts, and mathematical truths are only truths of definition, and completely arbitrary, quite unlike...

The only good science is the knowledge of facts, and mathematical truths are only truths of definition, and completely arbitrary, quite unlike...