Fundamentalist mathematicians believe that everything—plants, love, music, everything—can (in theory) be understood in terms of math.
“Of course, topologists don’t care about any of this “applied math” nonsense. They’re just trying to find all the shapes.”
― Math Without Numbers
― Math Without Numbers
“From Ayn Rand to bushy anarchists there is an occasional agreement on means called libertarianism, which is a faith in laissez-faire politics/economics.... How to hate your government on principle.”
― The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
― The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
“It is generally supposed that governments strengthen their forces only to defend the state from other states, in oblivion of the fact that armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects.”
― The Kingdom of God Is Within You
― The Kingdom of God Is Within You
“I believe, as many say they believe, that everyone has the right to run his own life—to go to hell in his own fashion.”
― The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
― The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism
“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”
― What I Believe and Other Essays
― What I Believe and Other Essays
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