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Math is not about “getting the right answer,” it’s about building arguments backing up an answer.
“They published their papers, and shouted and waved their arms, and a few canny and deeply thoughtful sci-fi writers wrote up lurid accounts of such an eventuality, and the rest of civilization went on torching the planet like a Burning Man pyromasterpiece.”
― New York 2140
― New York 2140
“Math is not about “getting the right answer,” it’s about building arguments backing up an answer.”
― Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths
― Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics' Deepest Truths
“Charlotte was coming to believe that arrogance was a quality not just correlated with but a manifestation of stupidity, a result of stupidity.”
― New York 2140
― New York 2140
“I have to put up with a few caterpillars if I want to get to know the butterflies.”
― The Little Prince - Il Piccolo Principe: Bilingual parallel text - Bilingue con testo a fronte: English - Italian / Inglese - Italiano (Dual Language Easy Reader Vol. 33)
― The Little Prince - Il Piccolo Principe: Bilingual parallel text - Bilingue con testo a fronte: English - Italian / Inglese - Italiano (Dual Language Easy Reader Vol. 33)
“The President sucked in his breath sharply. He also sucked in a big fly that happened to be passing at the time. He choked.”
― Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
― Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
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