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“That’s the problem with immortality,” mused Jack. “You never live long enough to get there.”

— Rudy Rucker Mad Professor (2007)

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My real speciality is the mathematical analysis of Hilbert Space operators. But this was no time to come on like an ivory-tower idealist.

The Sex Sphere (1983)

The space of our universe is the hypersurface of a vast expanding hypersphere.

The Sex Sphere (1983)

The public revealed its single most predictable trait: fickleness.

Mad Professor (2007)

Mother Nature doesn’t want power-tripping greedheads looking up her skirts.

Mathematicians in Love (2006)

People always have bad news for you when they call you “sir.”

Mathematicians in Love (2006)

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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