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…a mass of bright fragments (Paul Valery)

“I sense all the things that I write here, these associations, as an attempt to read a text, and this text contains a mass of bright fragments.” –Paul Valery [Context: In 1897, Paul Valery abandoned publishing to focus on his … Continue reading

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Ideas Worth Remembering

[image by Fernando Arconada] “After a dinner at the house of Emile Borel, Paul Valery asked [Einstein]: when an idea comes to you, how do you make arrangements to remember it? A notebook, a scrap of paper… Einstein responded: Oh! … Continue reading

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