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  • All that is not thought is pure nothingness; since we can think only thoughts, and all the words we use to speak of things can express only thoughts, to say there is something other than thought is therefore an affirmation which can have no meaning.

    "The Value of Science". Book by Henri Poincaré, translated by George Bruce Halsted. Chapter 11: "Science and Reality", 1907.
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