A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.
BILL GAEDEScience is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
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Define the word exist, and you’ll know whether God exists.
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Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).
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Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
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College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.
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A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.
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Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food.
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A mathematician is a magician who converts adjectives into nouns: continuous into continuum, infinite into infinity, infinitesimal into location, 0D into point, 1D into line, curved into geodesic.
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It is the definition of the word ‘object’ which destroys all religions.
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The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as ‘physicists,’ yet they know next to nothing about Physics.
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For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.
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Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
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A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can’t even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.
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A relativist is an individual who doesn’t know the difference between an adjective and an adverb.
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The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.
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Whenever I want to represent or depict the official version, I will refer to them as ‘mathematicians’ or ‘mathematical physicists’ or idiots or something like that.
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