Category Archives: Quotations

Scientific research in Kircher’s day still had something half-magical about it, and its purpose was nothing less than to penetrate the workings of the Divine Mind. This was the ambition that spurred Athanasius Kircher [circa 1601 – 1680], and it … Continue reading →

In the latest episode of the ‘you’re not an agnostic but an atheist’ silly buggers debate between PeeZee Maiers  Mayers or what ever he’s called at Pharyngoogoo and the Albino Aussie AnthropoidTM at Evolving Thoughts, the latter came up with … Continue reading →

Dirichlet’s definition also happens to be very close to the Bolzano-Cantorian idea of one-to-one correspondence between sets of real numbers, except of course neither ‘set’ nor ‘real number’ has been defined in math yet. David Forster Wallace,  A Compact History … Continue reading →