Steve Stuart

“[T]he worst thing one can do to feel one knows things a bit deeper is to try to go into them a bit deeper.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.”
― G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

“In order to solve this differential equation you look at it till a solution occurs to you.”
― George Pólya