Alok Singh
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“the human mind does not run on logic any more than a horse runs on petrol”
― Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
― Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
“How can anyone doubt the existence of God when evidence of His sense of humour surrounds us on all sides?”
― Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
― Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
“Like an open book
I long to tell you the story of my whole life.
I want to show you my innermost like an open book so that you can read it.
Anything that you want.
I want to be perceivable and … that you can perceive me.
I want to be comprehensible, like a mathematical formula you can solve, even if I cannot solve myself.
I long for you to solve me. I long for you to read me like an open book.
Anything that you want.
[…]
I long for you to tell me the story of your whole life.
I want you to show your innermost like an open book, so that I can read it.
Anything that I want.
I want to make you perceivable and … that I can perceive you.
I want to make you comprehensible, like a mathematical formula I can solve, even if you cannot solve yourself.
I long for us to be solvable. That we show each other our innermost, like an open book.
Anything that we have ever wanted.”
― Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
I long to tell you the story of my whole life.
I want to show you my innermost like an open book so that you can read it.
Anything that you want.
I want to be perceivable and … that you can perceive me.
I want to be comprehensible, like a mathematical formula you can solve, even if I cannot solve myself.
I long for you to solve me. I long for you to read me like an open book.
Anything that you want.
[…]
I long for you to tell me the story of your whole life.
I want you to show your innermost like an open book, so that I can read it.
Anything that I want.
I want to make you perceivable and … that I can perceive you.
I want to make you comprehensible, like a mathematical formula I can solve, even if you cannot solve yourself.
I long for us to be solvable. That we show each other our innermost, like an open book.
Anything that we have ever wanted.”
― Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“you are not thinking; you are merely being logical”
― Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
― Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
“Asked some years later how he (Abel) had managed to forge ahead so rapidly to the front rank he replied, “By studying the masters, not their pupils”- a prescription some popular writers of textbooks might do well to mention in their prefaces as an antidote to the poisonous mediocrity of their uninspired pedagogics.”
― Men of Mathematics
― Men of Mathematics
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