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Just As The Eye Was Made To See Colours, And The Ear To Hear Sounds, So The Human Mind Was Made To Understand, Not Whatever You Please, But Quantity.

Now, As God The Maker Play'd He Taught The Game To Nature Whom He Created In His Image; Taught Her The Selfsame Game Which He Played To Her.

I Myself, A Professional Mathematician, On Re-reading My Own Work Find It Strains My Mental Powers To Recall To Mind From The Figures The Meanings Of The Demonstrations, Meanings Which I Myself Originally Put Into The Figures And The Text From My Mind. But When I Attempt To Remedy The Obscurity Of The Material By Putting In Extra Words, I See Myself Falling Into The Opposite Fault Of Becoming Chatty In Something Mathematical.

Repudiating The Sensible World, Which He Neither Sees Himself Nor Believes From Those Who Have, The Peripatetic Joins Combat By Childish Quibbling In A World On Paper, And Denies The Sun Shines Because He Himself Is Blind.

Science Is The Process Of Thinking God's Thoughts After Him.