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"But these labels can only be finite in number. On that score, psychologic time should be discontinuous."
"Pour qu’un ensemble de sensations soit devenu un souvenir susceptible dâ€™Ăªtre classĂ© dans le temps, il faut qu’il ait cessĂ© dâ€™Ăªtre actuel, que nous ayons perdu le sens de son infinie complexitĂ©, sans quoi il serait restĂ© actuel. Il faut qu’il ait pour ainsi dire cristallisĂ© autour d’un centre d’associations d’idĂ©es qui sera comme une sorte d’étiquette. Ce n’est que quand ils auront ainsi perdu toute vie que nous pourrons classer nos souvenirs dans le temps, comme un botaniste range dans son herbier les fleurs dessĂ©chĂ©es."
"The mathematician is born, not made."
"What we call objective reality is, in the last analysis, what is common to many thinking beings, and could be common to all; this common part, we shall see, can only be the harmony expressed by mathematical laws. It is this harmony... which is the sole objective reality, the only truth we can attain; and when I add that the universal harmony of the world is the source of all beauty, it will be understood what price we should attach to the slow and difficult progress which little by little enables us to know it better."