“Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack.” IfsWorldYearsMindHumansEarthValuesChoicesHuman BeingsNumbersFiveSixComputerRedBlueAliens Author:Paul Erdos
“Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoebae to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect dance with the world around them. Only human beings have unfulfilled lives.” WorldHumansHuman BeingsPerfectPlanetsElementsBlueLowestComponentsWhales Author:Nicholas Lore