Sciences
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97 (Prime numbers, below 100.)
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“The past tells us who we are, without it, we lose our identity.” ” Stephen Hawking
We had this old idea, that there was a universe out there, and here is man, the observer, safely protected from the universe by a six-inch slab of plate glass. Now we learn from the quantum world that even to observe so minuscule an object as an electron we have to shatter the plate glass; we have to reach in there…. John Wheeler, A Question of Physics.
Roger Penrose, (from The Road to Reality): “… no one, not even Benoit Mandelbrot himself [...] had any real preconception of the set’s extraordinary richness. The Mandelbrot set was certainly no invention of any human mind. The set is just objectively there in the mathematics itself. If it has meaning to assign an actual existence to the Mandelbrot set, then that existence is not within our mind, for no one can fully comprehend the set’s endless variety and unlimited complication.”
Georg Cantor: The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though in its highest form it has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.
“I cannot resist the formation of a hypothesis for every subject. But no matter how good I think any hypothesis is, I must not fall in love with it, for it may show itself to be contrary to the facts.” --- Charles Darwin
'The problem is that scientists are supposed to know, but they do not. Science is helpless and covers up this helplessness with a deceptive screen of expert assurance.' Žižek, Slavoj. 'Joe Public v the volcano.' in: New Statesman. April 29, 2010. (English).
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it. ~ (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, MuR, §166)