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With me, everything turns into mathematics.

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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.

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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I hav...more

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[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I ...more