“For anything with a name(and zero had so many) surely existed…Yet how could what doesn't exist, exist?” — Robert Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Beyond it is the incalculable. In other words, numbers cannot exceed the number of things there are: so that for the teller and the… — Robert Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Those wonderful coincidences of sound and sense between one language and another were also at work, giving each new term an alluring resonance.” — Robert Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Let the pleasure of doodling led us to writing as decoration rather than to the peculiarly abstract sort of representation it inclines towards: the… — Robert Kaplan Copy Share Image
“For anything with a name(and zero had so many) surely existed…Yet how could what doesn't exist, exist?” — Robert Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Just as the rag doll wanted to be an eagle, the donkey a lion and the monkey a queen, the zero put on airs… — Robert Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Will it be the idea of absence of any number-or the idea of a number for such absence? Is it to be the mark… — Robert Kaplan Copy Share Image
“In autumn velvety shawls of maroon and sienna drape hillsides that fold down upon willow-braided streams.” — Robert Kaplan Copy Share Image
“True, they (numbers) are our invention and we have free will: but only to act compatibly with the world we've made.” — Robert Kaplan Copy Share Image
“We realize that anything can be everything and each is also its opposite-then the image of zero's perfect ring shines before us.” — Robert Kaplan Copy Share Image
