"The study of infinity is much more than……" — Rudy Rucker
"The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment."
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Rudy Rucker
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37 Quotes by Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker has 37 quotes on this site.
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Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being…
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Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to…
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For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to…
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The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how…
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The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.
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The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.
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A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
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Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
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At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive…
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All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have…
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But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
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Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out…
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I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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