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"Fortunately, creative minds forget dogmatic philosophical beliefs whenever adherence to them would impede constructive achievement."
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"'Leibniz saw in his binary arithmetic the image of creation. He imagined that Unity represented God, and zero the void; that the Supreme Being drew all beings from the void, just as unity and zero express all numbers in his system of numeration'
- Laplace"
- Courant
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"'Leibniz saw in his binary arithmetic the image of creation. He imagined that Unity represented God, and zero the void; that the Supreme Being drew all beings from the void, just as unity and zero express all numbers in his system of numeration'
- Laplace"
- Courant
