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The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures

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“Facts and fiction both are dreams. Facts are what fiction dreams to be, while fiction is the dream that facts have conquered. And the beauty of it all is that, at any given moment, both dreams are alive, just in different shape and strength.”

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“People always think they want to know stuff. Secrets. Answers. Actually, there was plenty of stuff we were better off not knowing. If humans weren't so intent on a quest for knowledge, they probably wouldn't be in such a fucked-up position right now. Not all knowledge was good. And even the stuff that was good didn't always fall into the right hands. Give the wrong idiot a shitload of knowledge and that was when the world imploded.”

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