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There are no degrees of being, a gradual difference of only states or relations being thinkable. Accordingly, if an agent strives to preserve or to restore itself, then it must be a state or relation.

— Bernhard Riemann Gesammelte Mathematische Werke (1876)

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Natural science is the attempt to comprehend nature by precise concepts.

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Newton was far from the crude thought that explanation of phenomena could be attained by abstraction.

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