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The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged i...more

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Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

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We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelli...more

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[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only...more