Portrait of Voltaire

Voltaire

1694–1778

French writer

There is an astonishing imagination even in the science of mathematics…We repeat, there is far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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