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William Blake
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| "If you disregard the very simplest cases, there is in all of
mathematics not a single infinite series whose sum has been rigorously
determined. In other words,the most important parts of mathematics stand
without a foundation." | |
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Niels H. Abel
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| "More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been
taken from the earth." | |
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Napoleon Hill
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| "Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of
finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the
purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that
infinitude." | |
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Alfred North Whitehead
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| "The infinite is a concept which corrupts and upsets all
others." | |
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Jorge Luis Borges
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| "The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the
spirit of man." | |
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David Hilbert
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| "The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand
on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our
business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land." | |
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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| "We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely
more than is now known, and that man can learn it." | |
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John W. Campbell, Jr.
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