Debunking Bad Science Should Be Constant Obligation

If All Sentient Beings In The Universe Disappeared, There Would Remain A Sense In Which Mathematical Objects And Theorems Would Continue To Exist Even Though There Would Be No One Around To Write Or Talk About Them. Huge Prime Numbers Would Continue To Be Prime, Even If No One Had Proved Them Prime.

A God Whose Creation Is So Imperfect That He Must Be Continually Adjusting It To Make It Work Properly Seems To Me A God Of Relatively Low Order, Hardly Worthy Of Any Worship.

The Last Level Of Metaphor In The Alice Books Is This: That Life, Viewed Rationally And Without Illusion, Appears To Be A Nonsense Tale Told By An Idiot Mathematician. At The Heart Of Things Science Finds Only A Mad, Never-ending Quadrille Of Mock Turtle Waves And Gryphon Particles. For A Moment The Waves And Particles Dance In Grotesque, Inconceivably Complex Patterns Capable Of Reflecting On Their Own Absurdity.

The High Number From The Middle East Is Only Coincidence, He Said. It Is No Particular Choice On Our Part, ... We Accept Visa Trainees From Those Countries. We'd Accept Them From Other Countries, Too, But We Don't Get Their Applications.

A Surprising Proportion Of Mathematicians Are Accomplished Musicians. Is It Because Music And Mathematics Share Patterns That Are Beautiful?