Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.
It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the later. Prediction becomes impossible, and we have the fortuitous phenomena.
Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.