He transformed number from a useful tool into the central principle of life. He called his new philosophy µαθηµατικη (mathematics).
“It is more blessed to ask forgiveness than permission.”
― The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
― The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces
“EPICURUS WROTE, “Empty is that philosopher’s argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use in a medical art that does not cast out the sicknesses of bodies, so too there is no use in philosophy, unless it casts out the suffering of the soul.”
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“Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only "pseudo problems," because they can be formulated only in terms of questions which are meaningless.”
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“Owen. He coined the term Dinosauria in 1841. It means 'terrible lizard' and was a curiously inapt name.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
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