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A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial. Albert Camus land numbers men We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions. Albert Einstein numbers science facts The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite. Albert Einstein infinite natural numbers The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it. Albert Einstein pages problem numbers As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement. Guided by empirical data, the investigator rather develops a system of thought which, in general, is built up logically from a small number of fundamental assumptions, the so-called axioms. We call such a system of thought a theory. The theory finds the justification for its existence in the fact that it correlates a large number of single observations, and it is just here that the 'truth' of the theory lies. Albert Einstein data numbers lying «1234567891011»