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You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse
I made a Second Marriage in my house;
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.

For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line
And "Up-and-down" by Logic I define,
Of all that one should care to fathom, I
Was never deep in anything but - Wine.

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Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

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Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

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Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

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God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

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You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

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The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.

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I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive epochs is like omitting Hamlet from the play which is named after him. . . But it is certainly analogous to cutting out the part of Ophelia. This simile is singularly exact. For Ophelia is quite essential to the play, she is very charming-- and a little mad.

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