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Robert P. Crease
“He never become a true professional, though, and fell into traps of the sort that enthusiastic amateurs often do. These included pursuing impossible problems like trying to square the circle, trisect an angle, and double a cube, each of which Hobbes erroneously thought he had achieved.”
Robert P. Crease, The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg

Robert P. Crease
“Modern astrologers seem strangely untroubled by, and even ignorant of, the fact that constellations do not come in neat packages— and that the sun and planets pass by them, and sometimes by entirely different constellations, at different times than confidently asserted by the dates given in newspaper horoscopes. Someone ought to file a malpractice claim.”
Robert P. Crease, The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
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“And in the end, when man has fully partaken of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, there will be this difference between the first Eden and the last, that man will not become as a god, but will remain forever humble.”
Percy Bridgman

Aaron Leitch
“The grimoires were already illegal; authoring or possessing them was punishable by torture and death. In that case, listing belladonna as an ingredient in an incense won’t likely be the crime that gets you lynched in a text that tells you how to conjure demons to kill your enemies.”
Aaron Leitch

Michael Guillen
“And just as conventional poetry helps us to see deep within ourselves, mathematical poetry helps us to see far beyond ourselves.”
Michael Guillen, Five Equations That Changed the World: The Power and Poetry of Mathematics

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