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“One should never try to prove anything that is not almost obvious.”
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“It's to that being inside of you who knows how to be alone, it is to this infant that I wish to speak, and no-one else. I'm well aware that this infant has been considerably estranged. It's been through some hard times, and more than once over a long period. It's been dropped off Lord knows where, and it can be very difficult to reach. One swears that it died ages ago, or that it never existed - and yet I am certain it's always there, and very much alive.”
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“In the center of an irrational universe governed by an irrational Mind stands rational man.”
― Valis
― Valis
“Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like. —Anton Chekhov”
― The Laws of Human Nature
― The Laws of Human Nature
“And every science, when we understand it not as an instrument of power and domination but as an adventure in knowledge pursued by our species across the ages, is nothing but this harmony, more or less vast, more or less rich from one epoch to another, which unfurls over the course of generations and centuries, by the delicate counterpoint of all the themes appearing in turn, as if summoned from the void.”
― Récoltes et semailles: Réflexions et témoignage sur un passé de mathématicien.
― Récoltes et semailles: Réflexions et témoignage sur un passé de mathématicien.
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