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“Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it.”

Needs Doe Facts Use Logic Accounts Infinite Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Mathematician Ontology

Book:Physics

Source: Physics

“Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.”

Humans Justice Human Beings Circumstances Accounts Infinite

Book:Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

“Science is the topography of ignorance. From a few elevated points we triangulate vast spaces, inclosing infinite unknown details. We cast the lead, and draw up a little sand from abysses we may never reach with our dredges.”

May Littles Science Space Ignorance Draws Accounts Infinite Casts Details Ignorant Sand Abyss Topography

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.”

Knows May Persons Problem Next Successful Psychology Week Events Broken Beats Accounts Infinite Legs Range Formulas Exceptional Next Week Predicting Broken Leg

Author:Atul Gawande

“The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.”

Wisdom Science Doors Atheism Limits Accounts Infinite Aim Errors

Book:Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo

Source: Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle. The threepenny opera. The trial of Lucullus. The life of Galileo

“In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.”

Men Accounts Infinite Appetite Distraction Brave New World Freedom Mass Communication Brave New World Technology Brave New World Consumerism

Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

“If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the composition of atoms, the macrocosm whereby we succeed only in creating outlines and translating a measure into numbers without our minds being able to form any concrete idea of it-we remain astounded by the enormous machinery of the universe.”

“Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.”

Knows Real Matter God Government Law Science Force Pieces Creation Ignorance Mouths Accounts Infinite Doctrine Ignorant Code Abandon Priests Deities Interpreter

Book:An Oration on the Gods

Source: An Oration on the Gods

“Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse.”

Science Accounts Harmony Infinite Astronomy Expanse

Author:John Scott Russell

“The fascination of any search after truth lies not in the attainment, which at best is found to be very relative, but in the pursuit, where all the powers of the mind and character are brought into play and are absorbed by the task. One feels oneself in contact with something that is infinite and one finds joy that is beyond expression in sounding the abyss of science and the secrets of the infinite mind.”

Feels Mind Play Character Science Joy Lying Found Secret Expression Tasks Accounts Infinite Oneself Pursuit Contact Relative Abyss Fascination Attainment Power Of The Mind

Author:Florence Bascom