Philosophy
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A Tour of the Calculus, David Berlinski (ISBN 978-0-679-74788-8, Vintage Books)
A Tour of the Calculus is a strange and unique book. According to text on the back it is likely to become a classic as Gödel, Escher, Bach. But I doubt that very much. The book was written in 1995 and so far I haven’t come across it in any list of classics. I also…
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Swine
‘As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a fair woman that turneth aside from discretion.‘― Proverbs 22
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Unexpected
‘The shepherd in Virgil sought for love and found him a native of the rocks.‘― Samuel Johnson
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Logical Proof
‘It is useless, my son. I have read Aristotle through twice and have found nothing about spots on the Sun. There are no spots on the Sun. They arise either from imperfections of your telescope or from defects in your eyes.‘― 17th century Jesuit professor
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Belief
‘I am a deeply religious nonbeliever.‘― Albert Einstein
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Unification
‘What God has put asunder, let no man join together.’― Wolfgang Pauli
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Free will 2
‘Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.‘― Albert Einstein
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Religion
‘Do I believe in God? I’m not an atheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not…
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