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I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#mathematics

A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic... ↗

— Bill Gaede

#mathematics #physics #mathematics

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. ↗

— Albert Camus

#suicide #mathematics

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness! ↗

— Roald Dahl

#mathematics

I guess I think of lotteries as a tax on the mathematically challenged. ↗

— Roger Jones

#mathematics #statistics #mathematics

Atheists don’t hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don’t exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist. ↗

— Ray Comfort

#atheism #hatred #ignorant #atheist

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. ↗

— Rumi

#metaphysics #rumi #metaphysics

The map is not the territory. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#metaphysics #philosophy #metaphysics

...reality is always plural and mutable. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#philosophy #metaphysics

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#metaphysical #philosophy #taste #metaphysics