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Sylvain Bérubé

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Sylvain’s Quotes

“L'absurde naît de cette confrontation entre l'appel humain et le silence déraisonnable du monde.”
― Albert Camus, Der Mythos des Sisyphos/Der erste Mensch/Die Pest/Der Fremde/Der Fall/Der glückliche Tod

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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

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“The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: mathematics, poetry

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“Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition.”
― Louis Zukofsky

tags: addition, infinity, intelligence, math, mathematics, mind, thought

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“I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

tags: argument, mathematics, schooling

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