"The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated."

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Source : Edward Kasner, James Newman (2013). “Mathematics and the Imagination”, p.210, Courier Corporation

Edward Kasner

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“Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world.”
“Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?”
“I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.”
“[Reagan] was the best president in this era, as he had the perfect temperament for the job.”
“Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.”
“Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks through the vaulting, and leads us up into the free sky above, expanding to the very throne of Jehovah, and drawing us still upward to the infinite heights of glory.”

Source : Frances Ridley Havergal (1892). “Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...”
“The bottom line is I'm a slow zombie guy - I'm always a slow zombie guy but I also know I'm in the minority.”
“Everyone always says, Does it bother you that Italians are always portrayed as Mafia characters? No, it doesn't bother me. First of all, not everybody in my family is in the Mafia. I have one uncle who's clean.”

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