Bill Gaede on adjectives
“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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A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.
Bill GaedeBill Gaede It is the definition of the word ‘object’ which destroys all religions.
Bill GaedeBill Gaede My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong’s record of “West End Blues” for me. I found more jazz on the radio, and began looking for records.
Bill CrowBill Crow Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.
Bill GaedeBill Gaede 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.
Bill GaedeBill Gaede 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.
Bill GaedeBill Gaede A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a ‘physicist’ and does ‘physics’ and physical experiments with abstract concepts.
Bill GaedeBill Gaede For youth, sexual love is whim; for the aged, luxury.
Bill GaedeBill Gaede The mathematicians of this world regard themselves as ‘physicists,’ yet they know next to nothing about Physics.
Bill GaedeBill Gaede 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).
Bill GaedeBill Gaede The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.
Bill GaedeBill Gaede 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.
Bill GaedeBill Gaede Atheism is the opium of the mathematicians. Atheism is the religion of Mathematics.
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