All Of Mathematics Is A Tale About

It Is Through Science That We Prove, But Through Intuition That We Discover.

Tolstoi Explains Somewhere In His Writings Why, In His Opinion, “science For Science's Sake” Is An Absurd Conception. We Cannot Know All The Facts, Since They Are Practically Infinite In Number. We Must Make A Selection. Is It Not Better To Be Guided By Utility, By Our Practical, And More Especially Our Moral, Necessities?

If We Knew Exactly The Laws Of Nature And The Situation Of The Universe At The Initial Moment, We Could Predict Exactly The Situation Of The Same Universe At A Succeeding Moment.

It Is Often Said That Experiments Should Be Made Without Preconceived Ideas. That Is Impossible. Not Only Would It Make Every Experiment Fruitless, But Even If We Wished To Do So, It Could Not Be Done. Every Man Has His Own Conception Of The World, And This He Cannot So Easily Lay Aside. We Must, Example, Use Language, And Our Language Is Necessarily Steeped In Preconceived Ideas. Only They Are Unconscious Preconceived Ideas, Which Are A Thousand Times The Most Dangerous Of All.

If We Ought Not To Fear Mortal Truth, Still Less Should We Dread Scientific Truth. In The First Place It Can Not Conflict With Ethics? But If Science Is Feared, It Is Above All Because It Can Give No Happiness? Man, Then, Can Not Be Happy Through Science But Today He Can Much Less Be Happy Without It.