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It is fashionable in modern America to sneer at mathematics, nowhere more so than in sports.

— Harold Lewis Why Flip a Coin? The Art and Science of Good Decisions (1997)

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Despite the babbling of the creationists, evolution is inevitable in a competitive world, and it does work.

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Philosophy is the misuse of a terminology which was invented for just this purpose.

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People who claim there is no such thing as native intelligence are nuts.

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Someone once said that he had made many mistakes in life, but never because he knew too much.

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It is a fallacy of human perception to see patterns that aren’t there, and to see order where there is none.

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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

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Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another proposition is true of that thing.

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