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If we admit a priori that science is just acquisition of knowledge, that is, building an inventory of all observable phenomena in a given disciplinary domain — then, obviously, any science is empirical.

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The spirit of geometry circulates almost everywhere in the immense body of mathematics, and it is a major pedagogical error to seek to eliminate it.

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Everything considered, mathematicians should have the courage of their most profound convictions and thus affirm that mathematical forms indeed have an existence that is independent of the mind considering them.... Yet, at any given moment, mathematicians have only an incomplete and fragmentary view of this world of ideas.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

René Thom

René Thom

Born: September 2, 1923
Died: October 25, 2002 (aged 79)
Bio: René Frédéric Thom was a French mathematician.

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