“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
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“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
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