"There is no such truth outside of mathematics. There is no way of finding a single absolute truth, an irrefutable argument which might help answer the questions of mankind."
"I'd rather make mistakes than do nothing. I'd rather mess up than miss out completely."
"I'm sorry, I didn't understand you. What was it you said you believed in?
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In the number Pi, in the Golden Section, the Fibonacci Series. The essence of nature is mathematical. There is a hidden meaning beneath reality. Things are organized following a model, a scheme, a logical series. Even the tiny snowflake includes a numerical basis in its structure. Therefore, if we manage to discover the secret meaning of numbers, we will know the secret meaning of reality.
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Impressive! Translating his words into the Queen's English, we find ourselves faced with a fresh, rousing defence of mathematics, as if numbers were pre-existing ideas in reality. Anyway, this is nothing new. Since man is incapable of reconciling mind and matter , he tends to confer some sort of entity on ideas, because he cannot bear the notion that the purely abstract only exists in our brain. The beauty and harmony of a snowflake. How sweet! The butterfly that flutters its wings and causes a hurricane on the other side of the world. We've been hearing about that damn butterfly for decades, but who has been able to predict a single hurricane? Nobody! Tell me something...Where is the beauty and harmony in cancer? What makes a cell suddenly decide to turn itself into a killer metastasis and destroy the rest of the cells in a healthy body? Does anbody know? No. Because we'd rather think of snowflakes and butterflies than of pain, war. Why? Because we need to think that life has meaning, that everything is governed by logic and not by mere chance. If I write 2 then 4 then 6, then we feel good, because we know that next comes 8. We can foresee it, we are not in the hands of destiny. Unfortunately, however, this has nothing to do with truth. Don't you agree? This... is only fear, sad... but there you go ."that everything is governed by logic and not by mere chance. If I write 2 then 4 then 6, then we feel good, because we know that next comes 8. We can foresee it, we are not in the hands of destiny. Unfortunately, however, this has nothing to do with truth. Don't you agree? This... is only fear, sad... but there you go."that everything is governed by logic and not by mere chance. If I write 2 then 4 then 6, then we feel good, because we know that next comes 8. We can foresee it, we are not in the hands of destiny. Unfortunately, however, this has nothing to do with truth. Don't you agree? This... is only fear, sad... but there you go."
"The only perfect crime that exists is not the one that remains unsolved, but the one which is solved with the wrong culprit."
"The butterfly that flutters its wings and causes a hurricane on the other side of the world. Sound familiar? Are you that butterfly?”
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