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1 " Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing! "
― Apostolos Doxiadis , Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
2 " It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters. "
3 " Well, the Dean has asked me to speak on "The Role of Logic in Human Affairs". Of course, if I take the injunction literally you shall hear the shortest lecture in recorded history! "
4 " when Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point, you see: 'All the facts of science are not enough to understand the world's meaning! "
5 " The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings. "
6 " The things that cannot be talked about logically are the only ones which are truly important. "
7 " The meaning of the world does not reside in the world. "
8 " Money corrupts so, best give it to the already corrupted. "
9 " Ah, the superior masochism of the privileged. "
10 " All the facts of science aren't enough to understand the world's meaning. For this, you must step outside the world.""Without language of thought, how can you understand anything?""Who knows, maybe by whistling? "
11 " The meaning is the ending. "
12 " Take my story as a cautionary tale, a narrative argument against ready-made solutions. It tells you that applying formulas is not good enough - not, that is, when you're faced with really hard problems! "
13 " Sometimes, the best argument in favour of the old... is the new! "
14 " Success in life is to be measured by the goals you’ve set yourself. "
― Apostolos Doxiadis , Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession
15 " Pon un hombre al filo del abismo y -en el improbable caso de que no se caiga- se convertirá en un místico o en un loco... ¡Lo que probablemente sea lo mismo! "
16 " Actually, we were at the other extreme from giants: we had become dwarfs! And I mean this quite literally. For, often, the right way to philosophize is to make yourself artificially stupid! Only by being "stupid" can you break the barrier of the seemingly obvious. "
17 " Truth is not always provable! "
18 " Intuition,’ he answered with a shrug. ‘It is the only tool left to the mathematician in the absence of proof. "
19 " mathematics as a tree with strong roots (the Axioms), a solid trunk (Rigorous Proof) and ever growing branches blooming with wondrous flowers (the Theorems). "
20 " The proverbial ‘mad mathematician’ was more fact than fancy. "
