Charles Seife Quotes
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The infinite zero of a black hole-mass crammed into zero space, curving space infinitely-punches a hole in the smooth rubber sheet. The equations of general relativity cannot deal with the sharpness of zero. In a black hole, space and time are meaningless.
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In the battle between Kronecker and Cantor, Cantor would ultimately prevail. Cantor's theory would show that Kronecker's precious integers-and even the rational numbers-were nothing at all. They were an infinite zero.
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Where there is the Infinite there is joy. There is no joy in the finite. —THE CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD
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My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? I have studied it…I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things. —GEORG CANTOR
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See appendix A for a proof that Winston Churchill was a carrot.
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The body, the house of the spirit, is under the power of pleasure and pain,” explains a god. “And if a man is ruled by his body then this man can never be free.
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The justice system can't be totally free of lies and distortion; after all, courts are chock-full of lawyers.
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Just as it's important to take the changing value of a dollar into account when comparing spending over time, it's important to take doctors' changing diagnoses into account when looking at disease trends
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This is the definition of the infinite: it is something that can stay the same size even when you subtract from it.
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Zero is powerful because it is infinity's twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang.
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If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it.