"Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible."

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Source : "[Nothing]". Personal Journal of Shalosh B. Ekhad and Doron Zeilberger, 2009.

Doron Zeilberger

#Zero Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Vacuums Quotes

“At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering.”
“I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.”

Source : “Internet pioneer Sean Parker: 'I'm blazing a new path'” by Dan Simon, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2011.
“The most inspiring leaders are those who... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.”
“Girls have long been evaluated on the basis of appearance and caught in myriad double binds: achieve, but not too much, be polite,but be yourself, be feminine and adult; be aware of our cultural heritage, but don't comment on the sexism. . . . Girls are trained to be less than who they really are. They are trained to be what the culture wants of its young women, not what they themselves want to become.”
“We grow up hearing so often that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points that we end up thinking it is also the best way to get there. A river knows better-:it has to do with how it dissipates the energy of its flow most efficiently; and how, in its bends, the sediment deposited soon turns into marshes and swampy islands, harboring all manner of interesting life, imparting charm and character to the whole waterway. I would defy you to find a river on this planet that prefers to run straight, unless it has been taught so by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.”
“For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.”
“Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.”

Source : Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.65, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why there are no examples of sustained atheist civilizations. "Atheistic humanism" became inhumanism in the hands of the Fascists and Communists and, in its less malign form in today's European Union, a kind of dehumamism in which a present-tense culture amuses itself to extinction. Post-Christian European culture is already post-cultural and, with its surging Muslim populations, will soon be post-European.”

Source : "America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It". Book by Mark Steyn, 2006.

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