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There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

— John von Neumann

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Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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