". . . in one sense a foundation is a security blanket: If you meticulously follow the rules laid down, no paradoxes or contradictions will arise. In reality there is now no guarantee of this sort of security . . ."

-- Saunders Mac Lane

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“It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the past by the present".”
“I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.”
“I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.”
“I also think that there's something about the graphic, political nature of such attacks, mixed with the fact that it all seems completely random to the victims.”

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“Apparently, the the only way to kill a lion is by rear naked choke. Personally, Iâ€™d just kick it in the head.”
“I love music and I love to dance.”
“I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.”
“Maybe I just have a different line than other people in terms of where my personal emotional space becomes public and private. There's almost nothing I wouldn't tell somebody about my quote - unquote "personal life" if they asked in any conversation. There's nothing I've done or said that's that great. I don't see anything I've done to be that different than any other normal person.”

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