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If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to…
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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results…
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Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders,…
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If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where,…
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All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.
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Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And…
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Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is…
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The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.
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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results…
— Martin Gardner
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I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of…
— Rob Lowe
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We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
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Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton…
— Rich Lowry
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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college,…
— Nicholson Baker
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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door…
— Malcolm Mclaren
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There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in…
— Steve Martin
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Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated…
— Martin Filler
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