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The utmost extent of mans knowledge, is to know that he knows noth

The utmost extent of mans knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. – Joseph Addison

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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. – Joseph Addison

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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. – Thomas Hobbes

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Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. – Immanuel Kant

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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. – Henri Poincare

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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. – Roger Bacon

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