". . . the membership relation for sets can often be replaced by the composition operation for functions. This leads to an alternative foundation for Mathematics upon categories -- specifically, on the category of all functions. Now much of Mathematics is dynamic, in that it deals with morphisms of an object into another object of the same kind. Such morphisms (like functions) form categories, and so the approach via categories fits well with the objective of organizing and understanding Mathematics. That, in truth, should be the goal of a proper philosophy of Mathematics."

-- Saunders Mac Lane

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“Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?”
“It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.”
“There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses.”
“That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks you're crazy.”
“...[I]f we care about our remaining liberties we must at some point draw a line in the sand and let politicians and bureaucrats know we will not tolerate further encroachment on our God-given rights to liberty.”
“A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.”

Source : "Why public spaces must allow private thoughts" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2006.
“It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with the fundamental concepts of our Constitution. Yet there seems evidence that this may have occurred.”

Source : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations, Norman Dodd (1954). “A report from Norman Dodd, director of research, covering his direction of the staff of the Special Committee of the House of Representatives to Investigate Tax Exempt Foundations for the six months' period, November 1, 1953-April 30, 1954”
“Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

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