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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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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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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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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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If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should…
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There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully,…
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The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a…
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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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There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.
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The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are…
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Sincerity is the key which will open the door through which you will see your separate parts, and you will see something…
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What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories,…
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I don't really understand it even now, It does have an angle which is attached to something quite primal in girls. I…
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Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought!…
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Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.
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The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the…
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I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing…
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