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The Last Best Hope (Star Trek: Picard #1)

by Una McCormack

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The Unsettled

by Ayana Mathis (Goodreads Author)

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Bel Canto

by Ann Patchett

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“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“‎"There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else -- but persistent.”
― Raoul Bott

tags: humor-science, math, practice, presistance, raoul-bott

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“Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.”
― Deepak Chopra

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“Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her.
That would be awesome.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

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“No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an "improper fraction." They're EQUAL for crying out loud. They are the exact same numbers and have the exact same properties. Who uses such words outside of fourth grade?”
― Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

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Decreasing worldsuck by reading and sharing awesome books!

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