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> [“Just as the rag doll wanted to be an eagle, the donkey a lion and the monkey a queen, the zero put on airs and pretended to be a digit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kaplan/just-as-the-rag-doll-wanted-to-be-an-eagle-the-donkey-a-lion-and-the/)

[Robert Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kaplan/)

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## More by Robert Kaplan

> [“Beyond it is the incalculable. In other words, numbers cannot exceed the number of things there are: so that for the teller and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kaplan/beyond-it-is-the-incalculable-in-other-words-numbers-cannot-exceed/)

[Robert Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kaplan/)

> [“Those wonderful coincidences of sound and sense between one language and another were also at work, giving each new term an alluring resonance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kaplan/those-wonderful-coincidences-of-sound-and-sense-between-one-language/)

[Robert Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kaplan/)

> [“Let the pleasure of doodling led us to writing as decoration rather than to the peculiarly abstract sort of representation it inclines towards: the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kaplan/let-the-pleasure-of-doodling-led-us-to-writing-as-decoration-rather/)

[Robert Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kaplan/)

> [“For anything with a name(and zero had so many) surely existed…Yet how could what doesn't exist, exist?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kaplan/for-anything-with-a-name-and-zero-had-so-many-surely-existed-yet-how/)

[Robert Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kaplan/)

> [“Just as the rag doll wanted to be an eagle, the donkey a lion and the monkey a queen, the zero put on airs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kaplan/just-as-the-rag-doll-wanted-to-be-an-eagle-the-donkey-a-lion-and-the/)

[Robert Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kaplan/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kaplan/will-it-be-the-idea-of-absence-of-any-number-or-the-idea-of-a-number/)

[Robert Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kaplan/)

> [“In autumn velvety shawls of maroon and sienna drape hillsides that fold down upon willow-braided streams.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kaplan/in-autumn-velvety-shawls-of-maroon-and-sienna-drape-hillsides-that/)

[Robert Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kaplan/)

> [“True, they (numbers) are our invention and we have free will: but only to act compatibly with the world we've made.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kaplan/true-they-numbers-are-our-invention-and-we-have-free-will-but-only-to/)

[Robert Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kaplan/)

> [“We realize that anything can be everything and each is also its opposite-then the image of zero's perfect ring shines before us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kaplan/we-realize-that-anything-can-be-everything-and-each-is-also-its/)

[Robert Kaplan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kaplan/)

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