A Sheryl Crow Quote: “Write About What’s Going On”

Posted on 11 October 2014 by RobertLovesPi

I couldn’t have phrased that any better, myself, so I didn’t try to.

What Is a Mathematician?

Posted on 4 October 2014 by RobertLovesPi

Sam Harris: A Quote

Posted on 26 September 2014 by RobertLovesPi

Source — Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion, p. 38.

Sam Harris on Men, Women, Violence, and Rape

Posted on 20 September 2014 by RobertLovesPi

Sam Harris, on Paying Attention

Posted on 17 September 2014 by RobertLovesPi

Source: Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion, p. 3.

“I would accept that as an axiom.” ~Spock

Posted on 30 August 2014 by RobertLovesPi

I would also accept this as an axiom. It’s obviously true, but I see no way to prove it. It is not what Spock was referencing in the above quotation, but the content of the quote still applies.

Amazingly, though, I have encountered people who think this is up for debate.

It isn’t.

“A thought is an idea in transit.” ~Pythagoras, quoted on a moving rhombic dodecahedron

Posted on 7 August 2014 by RobertLovesPi

Rhombic Dodeca

Created using Stella 4d, available at www.software3d.com/Stella.php.

A Quote from Voltaire, on Absurdities and Atrocities

Posted on 4 August 2014 by RobertLovesPi

Examples abound. Here are two:

Absurdity #1: Pure human races exist.

A resulting atrocity: the Holocaust (~20 million people, including ~6 million Jews, killed by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s).

Absurdity #2: Acts which are both suicidal and homicidal can be wonderful things, and can earn a person an eternal reward in paradise after death.

A resulting atrocity: the destruction of the World Trade Center, and attacks on other targets, on September 11, 2001, which killed over three thousand people, including the hijackers themselves.

Please note that this list is far from complete. A complete list would fill several very large books. Beware of absurdities in your thinking, for they can actually be fatal.