#mat

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace. ↗

— James Gleick

#randomness #science #science

We make versions, and true versions make worlds. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#philosophy #philosophy-of-science #pragmatism #science

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#good #in the end #journey #matters #toward

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#chance

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ↗

— Rebecca West

#been #call #differentiate #doormat #express

You are never too old to become younger! ↗

— Mae West

#paradox #poetry #story #story-telling #youthfulness

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#die #ends #lives #long #long run

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#dogmatism #comfort

Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles? ↗

— Paul Lockhart

#learning #math #mathematics #art

Tick, tock. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#games