Evariste Galois quotes
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“Unfortunately what is little recognized is that the most worthwhile scientific books are those in which the author clearly indicates what he does not know; for an author most hurts his readers by concealing difficulties.”
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“The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.”
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“An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.”
-- Evariste GaloisSource : "Deux mémoires d'Analyse pure". Manuscript by Evariste Galois (Preface), October 8, 1831, as quoted in "Manuscrits de Évariste Galois" edited by Jules Tannery (p. 27), translated, 1908.
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