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“Mathematics is the music of reason. To do mathematics is to engage in an act of discovery and conjecture, intuition and inspiration; to be in a state of confusion—not because it makes no sense to you, but because you gave it sense and you still don't understand what your creation is up to; to have a break-through idea; to be frustrated as an artist; to be awed and overwhelmed by an almost painful beauty; to be alive, damn it.”
― Paul Lockhart , A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

“Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new”
― Jonah Lehrer

“Музо, възпей оня пагубен гняв на Ахила…
Ахил беше грубата сила.
Военния демон.
Ахил беше стар генерал
на Н. Ц. В. цар Агамемнон.
Ахил бе герой.
С безброй
кръстове, ордени, ленти…
Пиедестал
на реда и тишината
в страната…
Но днес ний
не вярваме вече в герои
— ни чужди, ни свои.”
― Гео Милев "Септември"

“As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature. [This] clearly indicates the true place of man in nature, but it dissipates the prevalent illusion of man's supreme importance and the arrogance with which he sets himself apart from the illimitable universe and exalts himself to the position of its most valuable element.”
― Ernst Haeckel, Riddle of the Universe