Sociology Is The Science With The Greatest

Analyse Data Just So Far As To Obtain Simplicity And No Further.

Sociology Is The Science With The Greatest Number Of Methods And The Least Results.

Mathematicians Do Not Study Objects, But Relations Among Objects; They Are Indifferent To The Replacement Of Objects By Others As Long The Relations Don't Change. Matter Is Not Important, Only Form Interests Them.

Thus, Be It Understood, To Demonstrate A Theorem, It Is Neither Necessary Nor Even Advantageous To Know What It Means. The Geometer Might Be Replaced By The "logic Piano" Imagined By Stanley Jevons; Or, If You Choose, A Machine Might Be Imagined Where The Assumptions Were Put In At One End, While The Theorems Came Out At The Other, Like The Legendary Chicago Machine Where The Pigs Go In Alive And Come Out Transformed Into Hams And Sausages. No More Than These Machines Need The Mathematician Know What He Does.

Talk With M. Hermite. He Never Evokes A Concrete Image, Yet You Soon Perceive That The More Abstract Entities Are To Him Like Living Creatures.