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Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

Patterns, Mathematics, Mathematical, Pattern
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Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resembe what actually happens.

Lying, Science, Conclusion, Religion, Hinges

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

Simple, Brain, Enough, Brains, Understand

I don't want to convince you that mathematics is useful. It is, but utility is not the only criterion for value to humanity. Above all, I want to convince you that mathematics is beautiful, surprising, enjoyable, and interesting. In fact, mathematics is the closest that we humans get to true magic. How else to describe the patterns in our heads that - by some mysterious agency - capture patterns of the universe around us? Mathematics connects ideas that otherwise seem totally unrelated, revealing deep similarities that subsequently show up in nature.

Beautiful, Education, Math, Utility, Capture, Useful

To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too closely on too limited an application of a mathematical idea, you rob the mathematician of his most important tools: analogy, generality, and simplicity. Mathematics is the ultimate in technology transfer.

Technology, Ideas, Missing, Rob, Application, Mathematician

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.

Linux, Numerals, People, World
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