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Quote: if you have too much respect for facts that refute your conjectures, you may miss conjectures that can be tested with thought-experiments

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mathematics by proofs and refutations

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BETA: … Imagine that you arrive by trial-and-error at the … If you have too much respect for facts, … another conjecture. But if you have a better … thought-experiment: like Cauchy's proof.   Google-1   Google-2

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