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I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate...

— Stanislaw Ulam

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Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.

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The story that Dick Feynman could open safes whose combinations had been forgotten by their owners is true.

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God seeks comrades and claims love,
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