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"When considering the role of mathematics among the other sciences, we can see it as a vast warehouse filled with shelves. On these shelves, mathematicians place things whose truth they guarantee; they also provide instructions on how to use and reconstruct them. Other sciences come and take what they need." – Jean-Pierre Serre (1926-)
#quote #mathematics #maths #math
“One... two...”
“Three, sir.”
“What?”
“Three, sir, it's what comes after two.”
“Do you know, that's exactly what I thought?”
“And then four, and then five, and then six, and then seven—-”
“Stop, please! You're making me dizzy!”
— The Doctor and a young girl, in “Castrovalva”
"Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin.
"And what happened?" pressed Ford.
"It committed suicide," said Marvin and stalked off back to the Heart of Gold.
"Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition." ~ Victoria Woodhull
Most anarchists believe the coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.
-- Lucy Parsons
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all."
This is a very odd waiting room. Where are the hopelessly out-of-date magazines?
— The Doctor, standing in the middle of a desert, in “The Ultimate
Foe”
"So much time," it groaned, "oh so much time. And pain as well, so much of that, and so much time to suffer it in too. One or the other on its own I could probably manage. It's the two together that really get me down."
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
-- Murray Bookchin
In the Middle Ages, there was war in some corner of Europe almost every day. But they were little wars with little effects because the powers waging them were little and their resources small.
-- Leopold Kohr
"Delay?" Zaphod cried. "Have you seen the world outside this ship? It's a wasteland, a desert. Civilization's been and gone, man. There are no lemon-soaked paper napkins on the way from anywhere."
"The statistical likelihood," continued the autopilot primly, "is that other civilizations will arise. There will one day be lemon-soaked paper napkins. Till then there will be a short delay. Please return to your seat."
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Mich braucht fast jeder!
Zumindest behaupten fast alle, ich hätte gerade noch gefehlt.
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Take the principle that two wrongs don't make a right. If you really took it seriously, that alone would knock away almost the entire basis for war and the criminal justice system.
-- David Graeber
In all my travellings through the universe, I have battled against evil, against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here! The oldest civilization: decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core. Power-mad conspirators, Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen; they're still in the nursery compared to us. Ten million years of absolute power, that's what it takes to be really corrupt!
— The Doctor, in “The Ultimate Foe”
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
