A Small Error In The Former Will

A Very Small Cause, Which Escapes Us, Determines A Considerable Effect Which We Cannot Ignore, And We Say That This Effect Is Due To Chance.

I Then Began To Study Arithmetical Questions Without Any Great Apparent Result, And Without Suspecting That They Could Have The Least Connexion With My Previous Researches. Disgusted At My Want Of Success, I Went Away To Spend A Few Days At The Seaside, And Thought Of Entirely Different Things. One Day, As I Was Walking On The Cliff, The Idea Came To Me, Again With The Same Characteristics Of Conciseness, Suddenness, And Immediate Certainty, That Arithmetical Transformations Of Indefinite Ternary Quadratic Forms Are Identical With Those Of Non-euclidian Geometry.

It May Happen That Small Differences In The Initial Conditions Produce Very Great Ones In The Final Phenomena. A Small Error In The Former Will Produce An Enormous Error In The Later. Prediction Becomes Impossible, And We Have The Fortuitous Phenomena.

Just As Houses Are Made Of Stones, So Is Science Made Of Facts.

Zero Is The Number Of Objects That Satisfy A Condition That Is Never Satisfied. But As Never Means "in No Case", I Do Not See That Any Progress Has Been Made.