All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true. ✨ Lichtenberg: A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions. Book by Joseph Peter Stern, p. 84, 1959.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true. ✨ Lichtenberg: A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions. Book by Joseph Peter Stern, p. 84, 1959.

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