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If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.
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science
maths
physics
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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He'd always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn't do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn't a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid.
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humor
interesting-times
zero
numbers
number
maths
wizard
rincewind
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Terry Pratchett |
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Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat's last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.
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sex
maths
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Tom Stoppard |
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dde5d87
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Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income.
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pithy
maths
mathematics
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Isaac Asimov |
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cb5c7c3
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Revenge may be exacted a hundred times over in one sleepless night. The impulse, the dreaming intention, is human, normal, and we should forgive ourselves. But the raised hand, the actual violent enactment, is cursed. The maths says so. There'll be no reversion to the status quo ante, no balm, no sweet relief, or none that lasts. Only a second crime. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches a civilisation. It's a reversion to constant, visceral fear.
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revenge
maths
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Ian McEwan |
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078f800
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people have managed to marry without arithmetic
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marriage
bible
tenets
maths
rules
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Geoffrey Chaucer |
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... where there's one there's ten.' That's crazy math.
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funny
maths
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Emma Donoghue |