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If God Creates A World Of Particles And Waves, Dancing In Obedience To Mathematical And Physical Laws, Who Are We To Say That He Cannot Make Use Of Those Laws To Cover The Surface Of A Small Planet With Living Creatures?

One Day, When I Was Doing Well In Class And Had Finished My Lessons, I Was Sitting There Trying To Analyze The Game Of Tic-tac-toe... The Teacher Came Along And Snatched My Papers On Which I Had Been Doodling... She Did Not Realize That Analyzing Tic-tac-toe Can Lead Into Dozens Of Non-trivial Mathematical Questions.

Speaking About Symmetry, Look Out Our Window, And You May See A Cardinal Attacking Its Reflection In The Window. The Cardinal Is The Only Bird We Have Who Often Does This. If It Has A Nest Nearby, The Cardinal Thinks There Is Another Cardinal Trying To Invade Its Territory. It Never Realizes It Is Attacking Its Own Reflection. Cardinals Don't Know Much About Mirror Symmetry!

If You Ask Me To Tell You Anything About The Nature Of What Lies Beyond The Phaneron… My Answer Is “how Should I Know?”… I Am Not Dismayed By Ultimate Mysteries… I Can No More Grasp What Is Behind Such Questions As My Cat Can Understand What Is Behind The Clatter I Make While I Type This Paragraph.

The Computers Are Not Replacing Mathematicians; They Are Breeding Them.