"The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers."

-- Georg Cantor

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“You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.”
“We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.”
“The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.”
“I think sex appeal is something that's fun. But I'd guess any man with any conscious consideration or understanding of his own sex appeal is one of the least sexy men you might meet.”

Source : "Is this it?". Th Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2008.
“The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever”
“How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.”
“I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.”
“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.”

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