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"Quapropter bono christiano, sive mathematici, sive quilibet impie divinantium, maxime dicentes vera, cavendi sunt, ne consortio daemoniorum animam deceptam, pacto quodam societatis irretiant."

 

Augustinus (De genesis ad literam, Liber 2, Caput XVII, Nr. 37)

 

:eek_big: Translation (and nice quotes) here

mathematical quotes

eg

"5 out of 4 people have trouble with fractions."

Board in Danby, NY

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I found evolution more magnificent than Eden;

I found it more wonderful to be a rising ape than a falling angel.

Terry Pratchett (on reading Darwin).

 

I found evolution more magnificent than Eden; I found it more wonderful to be a rising ape that a falling angel.

typo?

Posted

study the brickwork, study the fortification;

climb the ancient staircase to the terrace;

study how it is made; from the terrace see

the planted and fallow fields, the ponds and orchards.

~ gilgamesh ~

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