Thomas Banchoff famous quotes

All of us are slaves to the prejudices of our own dimension.
-- Thomas Banchoff

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The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.
-- Thomas Banchoff

#Powerful #Tools #Ontology

Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors a century ago and obtain direct visual experience of phenomena in a dimension higher than our own.
-- Thomas Banchoff

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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase of manifestation than our physical plane, having other dimensions than the three to which we are habituated, and perceived by other modes of consciousness than those to which we are accustomed.

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.