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Heaven and earth Quote by Peter Høeg

“Mathematics is a kind of language. The only one in the universe that spurns the thought of limits. Under duress, psychology and biology have admitted that there is a limit to the conditions to which living creatures may be subjected. That there is a limit to the amount of discipline, hard work and…” quote by Peter Høeg
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““Mathematics is a kind of language. The only one in the universe that spurns the thought of limits. Under duress, psychology and biology have admitted that there is a limit to the conditions to which living creatures may be subjected. That there is a limit to the amount of discipline, hard work and firm structure that children can bear. Even physics has its limits. The cosmic and the atomic chronon. The upper and the lower limit. But mathematics is limitless. Because there are no lower and upper limits, there is only infinity. Maybe this, as they say, is in itself neither bod or good. But there, where we met it -- as a manifestation of time, as figures measuring achievement and improvement, as an argument for the feasibility of the absolute -- it was not human. It was unnatural. … ...in the beginning God created heaven and earth as raw material, like a group of pupils entering Primary I, designated and earmarked for processing and ennoblement. As the straight path along with the process of evolution should progress He created linear time. And as an instrument for measuring how the process of evolution had advanced, He created mathematics and physics.””

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