Alexis de Tocqueville, Letter to de Gobineau (August 5, 1858) Correspondance entre Alexis de Tocqueville et Arthur de Gobineau 1843-1859 (1908) p. 330.
[Tr. John Lukacs, At the End of an Age (2002)]
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Une hypothèse qui permet de prévoir certains effets qui se reproduisent toujours ressemble absolument à une vérité démontrée. Le système de Newton ne repose guère sur un autre fondement. Si en réalité et de l aveu du. [A hypothesis which permits the prediction of certain effects that always reoccur under certain conditions does, in its way amount to a demonstrable certainty. Even the Newtonian system had no more than such a foundation.]

— Alexis de Tocqueville on Uncertainty principle

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Une hypothèse qui permet de prévoir certains effets qui se reproduisent toujours ressemble absolument à une vérité démontrée. Le système de Newton ne repose guère sur un autre fondement. Si en réalité et de l aveu du. [A hypothesis which permits the prediction of certain effects that always reoccur under certain conditions does, in its way amount to a demonstrable certainty. Even the Newtonian system had no more than such a foundation.]" in the context of "Alexis de Tocqueville, Letter to de Gobineau (August 5, 1858) Correspondance entre Alexis de Tocqueville et Arthur de Gobineau 1843-1859 (1908) p. 330.
[Tr. John Lukacs, At the End of an Age (2002)]" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Alexis de Tocqueville

About Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859) was a French political thinker and historian, most famous for his work Democracy in America.