Quotation of the day

If things don't add up, then add them down. Distribution has no effect on reality.

When faced with the inevitable boundry of logic and math ... and what we think is real, one will always come face to face with fear. This is why we invent beyond the known.

Both by Star Valley guy.

Godfrey H. Hardy:

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

A Mathematician's Apology, London, Cambridge University Press, 1941.

Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

Pensees. 1670.

Blaise Pascal:

Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.

W. H. Auden and L. Kronenberger (eds.) The Viking Book of Aphorisms, New York: Viking Press, 1966.

Blaise Pascal:

Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth
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W. H. Auden and L. Kronenberger (eds.) The Viking Book of Aphorisms, New York: Viking Press, 1966.

dude,your quotes really suck.who actually reads this rubbish?

You do ....... 😀

Originally posted by StarValleyWy
If things don't add up, then add them down. Distribution has no effect on reality.

When faced with the inevitable boundry of logic and math ... and what we think is real, one will always come face to face with fear. This is why we invent beyond the known.

Both by Star Valley guy.

I wonder who said that, I mean about those statistics.
Anybody knows ?

Originally posted by ivanhoe
You do ....... 😀

Originally posted by ivanhoe
You do ....... 😀

Originally posted by ivanhoe
I wonder who said that, I mean about those statistics.
Anybody knows ?

Originally posted by T1000
When I was 14 (and not what one might call fully socially integrated) I read books of and dictionaries of and then some more books of quotations. I seem to recall Mark Twain's name being attached to that one. Wouldn't stake an e-pawn on that though. Hazy recollections and what-not.

T1000

[i]Originally posted by Pyrrho:
I found an interesting article at http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro99/web3/Gosselink.html

-Jarno