Ocupation: Mathematician
Life: April 15, 1707 - September 18, 1783
Birthday: April 15
Death: September 18
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.
source: Leonhard Euler (1955). “Commentationes mechanicae ad theoriam corporum fluidorum pertinentes 2nd part”, p.80, Springer Science & Business Media
topic: May, Statistics, Causes, Mystery Of Nature, Euler