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Paul Carus
(18 Jul 2 - 11 Feb 1919)
German-American philosopher who emigrated to the U.S. (c.1884) and published philosophical and scientific treatises. His works include Religion and Science (1893) and The Principle of Relativity (1913). He wrote on a diverse range of subjects in many other books and articles from religion, history, politics, philosophy, and social issues to logic, mathematics, anthropology and other science.
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Science Quotes by Paul Carus (3 quotes)
The truth is that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods of space measurements. There is one space only, though we may conceive of many different manifolds, which are contrivances or ideal constructions invented for the purpose of determining space.
— Paul Carus
In Science (1903), 18, 106. In Robert Édouard Moritz, Memorabilia Mathematica (1914), 352.
There is no prophet which preaches the superpersonal God more plainly than mathematics.
— Paul Carus
In 'Reflections on Magic Squares', Monist (1906), 147.
There is no science which teaches the harmonies of nature more clearly than mathematics.
— Paul Carus
In Andrews, Magic Squares and Cubes (1908), Introduction.
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- 18 Jul - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Carus's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
