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“We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.”
“But that can never be," said Milo, jumping to his feet."Don't be too sure," said the child patiently, "for one of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might care to learn, is t...”
“He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.”
“Use time and space; grow slowly into your dreams, infinity will fill you with peace.”
“And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and ...”
“The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.", 3 October 1892)”
“I love you in order to begin loving you,to start infinity againand never to stop loving you:that is why I do not love you yet.”
“You don’t get to have an opinion on whether .999… is equal to 1, for instance. It is equal to 1. People smarter than us have worked hard to figure this stuff out, and we owe it to them and to the u...”
