Causality
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The word hypothesis has now a somewhat different significance from that given it by Newton. We are now accustomed to understand by hypothesis all thoughts connected with the phenomena.
Newton was far from the crude thought that explanation of phenomena could be attained by abstraction.
— Bernhard Riemann
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Newton was far from the crude thought that explanation of phenomena could be attained by abstraction." in the context of "Causality" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Bernhard Riemann" (Quotes, Gesammelte Mathematische Werke (1876): Tr. C. J. Keyser, "On the Psychology of Metaphysics. Being the Philosophical Fragments of Bernhard Riemann." The Monist (1900) Vol. X)
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About Bernhard Riemann
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (September 17, 1826 – July 20, 1866) was an influential German mathematician who made lasting and revolutionary contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.
About Bernhard Riemann
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (September 17, 1826 – July 20, 1866) was an influential German mathematician who made lasting and revolutionary contributions to analysis, number theory, and differential geometry.
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