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21 " It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul. "
― Clifford A. Pickover , The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics
22 " This three-dimensional froth even produces tunnels and wormlike tubes commonly depicted in embedding diagrams for quantum froth. The connecting bridges in the foam correspond to wormholes between different universes or between different places in the same universe. "
― Clifford A. Pickover
23 " He calmly rode on, leaving it to his horse’s discretion to go which way it pleased, firmly believing that in this consisted the very essence of adventure. "
― Clifford A. Pickover , Sex, Drugs, Einstein, & Elves: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes, and the Quest for Transcendence
24 " The usefulness of mathematics allows us to build spaceships and investigate the geometry of our universe. Numbers may be our first means of communication with intelligent alien races. Some physicists have even speculated that an understanding of higher dimensions and of topology-the study of shapes and their interrelationships-may someday allow us to escape our universe, when it ends in either great heat or cold, and then we could call all of space-time our home. "
25 " According to his controversial theory, we notice the tops of the waves, but beneath the surface some kind of synchronistic mechanism may exist that mysteriously connects events in our world and causes them to cluster. "
26 " Georges Ifrah in the Universal History of Numbers discusses simultaneity when writing about Mayan mathematics:We therefore see yet again how people who have been widely separated in time or space have...been led to very similar if not identical results....In some cases, the explanation for this may be found in contacts and influences between different groups of people....The true explanation lies in what we have previously referred to as the profound unity of culture: the intelligence of Homo sapiens is universal and its potential is remarkably uniform in all parts of the world. "