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Mathematics is its own language. The language of everything. It doesn’t need someone to explain it. It explains itself and leaves almost no room for ambiguity.
sparkles in the same way, and like a diamond it’s impervious to time. It takes and multiplies the light of understanding, refracting it through many facets.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”’
It’s funny how fear squeezes common sense from your mind and freezes you into a narrow set of paths.
we humans care about what is, about what’s in front of us. Untouchable realities are too academic. If a man is starving to death on our street we empty the larder to feed him. Move him to a country a thousand miles away and our compassion shrinks a hundredfold. Move a child to another universe and we cease to care.
Things are never so bad that they can’t get worse.
more, Nick. I see the world but it doesn’t stick. All I am is this scrapbook of memory, fading, twisting as if it were written in smoke.
man’s not a man unless he keeps to his own set of rules.’
‘It’s easy to come up with conspiracy theories if you only look at the evidence that supports your idea.’
