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"Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications."
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"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."

"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."

"The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing."

"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."

"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."

"The square root of I is I."

"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."

"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."

"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."

"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."
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"In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought."

"Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down."

"The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief."

"You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school."

"The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature-all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct."

"Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved."

"This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right."
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