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“The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.”

Mind Form Seeing Possibility Highest Logic Infinite Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Infinity Ontology Myopia

Author:Georg Cantor

“I'm reverent from a distance.”

Belief Distance Self Reliance Ontology

Book:Beyond Sanctuary

Source: Beyond Sanctuary

“"I see it, but I don't believe it."”

Believe Logic Don't Believe Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Statistics Calculus Ontology

Author:Richard Dedekind

“The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.”

Source: Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses

“Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.”

Whole Opinion Connections Logic Mathematics Certainty Mathematical Uncertainty Reasoning Organisms Vitality Ontology Indivisible

Author:David Hilbert

“The universe forgives those who give until their hearts are aching and their spirits weak, and finds a way to renew all strength and cure all ills, in this world or the next, if a soul can just have faith.”

Ifs World Way Giving Heart Soul Spirit Universe Next This World Weak Forgiving Loyalty Cures Have Faith Ontology

Author:Janet Morris

“The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning.”

Source: Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses

“He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.”

Doe Logic Mathematics Supreme Confusion Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Ontology Wallowing

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”

Art Order Force My Own Taste Logic Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Contradiction Conform Ontology

Book:The complete works of Marcel Duchamp

Source: The complete works of Marcel Duchamp

“Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic.”

Courses Magic Projects Brilliant Cards Posts Graduates Ontology

Author:Jim Steinmeyer

“In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.”

Needs Should Humans Order Challenges Atheist Explanation Assumption Holocaust Primitive Flood Unnecessary Pathetic Fallacy Ontology

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?”

Love States Whole Dream Life Is Certain Logic Property Whole Life Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Waking Ontology

Author:Rene Descartes

“The Western World has been brainwashed by Aristotle for the last 2,500 years. The unconscious, not quite articulate, belief of most Occidentals is that there is one map which adequately represents reality. By sheer good luck, every Occidental thinks he or she has the map that fits. Guerrilla ontology, to me, involves shaking up that certainty.”

Thinking World Years Has Beens Reality Lasts Belief Fit Luck Western Certainty Unconscious Maps Sheer Good Luck Shaking Western World Ontology Brainwashed Guerrillas

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.”

Ideas Ontology Methodology

Author:Deepak Chopra