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“In math, the backwards E, ∃, means there exists. ∈ means part of a set. A line through that ∉ means excluded from. Everyone ∃, but not everyone ∈. We all feel that, unless we ∈, we do not ∃.”
― The Alphabet Not Unlike the World: Poems
― The Alphabet Not Unlike the World: Poems
“You left me boundaries of pain / Capacious as the sea, / Between eternity and time, / Your consciousness and me.”
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“It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.”
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“I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.”
― The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
― The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
“Every thing must have a beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. The Hindoos give the world an elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos”
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