... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.
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Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
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URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's.
