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Mathematical Science Is In My Opinion An Indivisible Whole, An Organism Whose Vitality Is Conditioned Upon The Connection Of Its Parts.

Sometimes It Happens That A Man's Circle Of Horizon Becomes Smaller And Smaller, And As The Radius Approaches Zero It Concentrates On One Point. And Then That Becomes His Point Of View.

For Us There Is No Ignorabimus, And In My Opinion None Whatever In Natural Science. In Opposition To The Foolish Ignorabimus Our Slogan Shall Be: "we Must Know - We Will Know!"

In Mathematics ... We Find Two Tendencies Present. On The One Hand, The Tendency Towards Abstraction Seeks To Crystallise The Logical Relations Inherent In The Maze Of Materials ... Being Studied, And To Correlate The Material In A Systematic And Orderly Manner. On The Other Hand, The Tendency Towards Intuitive Understanding Fosters A More Immediate Grasp Of The Objects One Studies, A Live Rapport With Them, So To Speak, Which Stresses The Concrete Meaning Of Their Relations.

Galileo Was No Idiot. Only An Idiot Could Believe That Science Requires Martyrdom - That May Be Necessary In Religion, But In Time A Scientific Result Will Establish Itself.