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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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It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind…
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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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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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I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the…
— Martin Luther
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I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and…
— Alexandra Sokoloff
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I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There are tons of things in your home and life that you don't use, need, or even particularly want. They just came…
— Tim Ferriss
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You take the flotsam," I tell her, "I'll take the jetsam." You always get the jetsam,"she says pretending to pout. "Do you…
— Wendy Mass
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She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from…
— David Almond
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Poor child...poor,ssweet child...she has a very ssserious problem...if only there was something we could do...but there is something... -Flotsam and Jetsam
— The Little Mermaid
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