Indeed, There Is Something To Be Said

One Day, When I Was Doing Well In Class And Had Finished My Lessons, I Was Sitting There Trying To Analyze The Game Of Tic-tac-toe... The Teacher Came Along And Snatched My Papers On Which I Had Been Doodling... She Did Not Realize That Analyzing Tic-tac-toe Can Lead Into Dozens Of Non-trivial Mathematical Questions.

Speaking About Symmetry, Look Out Our Window, And You May See A Cardinal Attacking Its Reflection In The Window. The Cardinal Is The Only Bird We Have Who Often Does This. If It Has A Nest Nearby, The Cardinal Thinks There Is Another Cardinal Trying To Invade Its Territory. It Never Realizes It Is Attacking Its Own Reflection. Cardinals Don't Know Much About Mirror Symmetry!

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.

There Are, And Always Have Been, Destructive Pseudo-scientific Notions Linked To Race And Religion; These Are The Most Widespread And Damaging. Hopefully, Educated People Can Succeed In Shedding Light Into These Areas Of Prejudice And Ignorance, For As Voltaire Once Said: "men Will Commit Atrocities As Long As They Believe Absurdities."

As Far As I Know, Clifford Pickover Is The First Mathematician To Write A Book About Areas Where Math And Theology Overlap. Are There Mathematical Proofs Of God? Who Are The Great Mathematicians Who Believed In A Deity? Does Numerology Lead Anywhere When Applied To Sacred Literature? Pickover Covers These And Many Other Off-trail Topics With His Usual Verve, Humor, And Clarity. And Along The Way The Reader Will Learn A Great Deal Of Serious Mathematics.