February 2010
114 posts
“The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation;...”
– Aristotle
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a...”
– Bertrand Russell (proofmathisbeautiful)
“Science is not formal logic–it needs the free play of the mind in as great a...”
– Max Born
“America has in fact transformed journalism from what it once was, the periodical...”
– Journalist W.J. Stillman, writing in The Atlantic Monthly about the negative influence of the telegraph, 1891 (via:syntheticpubes)
The Real Rules for Time Travelers →
Time travel may in fact be possible, but it wouldn’t work like in Back to the Future. (givemesomethingtoread)
When your brain gets the joke →
Two polar bears are perched on a block of floating ice. One says to the other: “Do you know, I keep thinking it’s Thursday…”
(givemesomethingtoread)
