"When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But when he tries to extend his proposition to everything, though it is much more interesting, it is also much more dangerous. In the transition from one to all, from the specific to the general, mathematics has made its greatest progress, and suffered its most serious setbacks, of which the logical paradoxes constitute the most important part. For, if mathematics is to advance securely and confidently, it must first set its affairs in order at home."

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Source : "Mathematics and the Imagination".

Edward Kasner

#Home Quotes #Order Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.”
“So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested.”

Source : "Comedian Tommy Chong fighting prostate cancer". www.cnn.com. June 10, 2012.
“You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.”

Source : Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998
“Berlin stimulates like arsenic.”

Source : Der Querschnitt. Quoted in Gordon, Mel (2000). "Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin", front fold, 1929.
“She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.”
“I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.”
“Buddhist meditation doen't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever - can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.”
“Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.”

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