Quote by Gregory Bateson
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call m

Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. – Gregory Bateson

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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. – Gregory Bateson

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I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness…. – Stendhal (Henri Beyle), The Life of Henri Brulard

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Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. – Gottfried Leibniz

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Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero. – Author Unknown

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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful? – Pliny the Elder, Natural History

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