Paul Valery Quotes on Knowledge
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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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On a toujours cherche des explications quand c'etait des representations qu'on pouvait seulement essaye d'inventer.