All Of Mathematics Is A

It May Be Appropriate To Quote A Statement Of Poincare, Who Said (partly In Jest No Doubt) That There Must Be Something Mysterious About The Normal Law Since Mathematicians Think It Is A Law Of Nature Whereas Physicists Are Convinced That It Is A Mathematical Theorem.

All The Scientist Creates In A Fact Is The Language In Which He Enunciates It. If He Predicts A Fact, He Will Employ This Language, And For All Those Who Can Speak And Understand It, His Prediction Is Free From Ambiguity. Moreover, This Prediction Once Made, It Evidently Does Not Depend Upon Him Whether It Is Fulfilled Or Not.

Why Is It That Showers And Even Storms Seem To Come By Chance, So That Many People Think It Quite Natural To Pray For Rain Or Fine Weather, Though They Would Consider It Ridiculous To Ask For An Eclipse By Prayer.

Consider Now The Milky Way. Here Also We See An Innumerable Dust, Only The Grains Of This Dust Are No Longer Atoms But Stars; These Grains Also Move With Great Velocities, They Act At A Distance One Upon Another, But This Action Is So Slight At Great Distances That Their Trajectories Are Rectilineal; Nevertheless, From Time To Time, Two Of Them May Come Near Enough Together To Be Deviated From Their Course, Like A Comet That Passed Too Close To Jupiter. In A Word, In The Eyes Of A Giant, To Whom Our Suns Were What Our Atoms Are To Us, The Milky Way Would Only Look Like A Bubble Of Gas.

Geometry Is Not True, It Is Advantageous.