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Quote of the Day
Proclus believed that mathematics was intrinsic to the fabric of things, and that its language enabled one to articulate the knowledge of reality: the relation between whole and parts could be expressed in terms of divisibility; the bonds between disparate parts of the same universe could be seen as proportions; the generation of beings from the ( Read more... ) -
Quote of the Day
...nothing in the universe
Is born unique and grows unique, alone,
But all belong to a species, very many
Of the same kind.
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Therefore one must accept that sky
And earth and sun, moon, sea and all else that exists
Are not unique, but in number numberless.
- Lucretius, Trans. Melville, On the Nature of the Universe. Book 2, line 1077.
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Wisdom!
Arguably, ageing population doesn't necessarily make the world wiser, but it definitely makes it less open to new experiences.
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A good set of rules for calculating probabilities
Вероятность - это предел для частоты благоприятных исходов на большом массиве однотипных событий. Т.е. метода подсчета всегда одна ( Read more... ) -
Today I Learned
How a "magnificently" wrong science theory developed by Max van Pettenkofer helped solve the cholera problem and stimulated development of modern sanitation systems in the 19th century Europe.
Contagionism vs Anticontagionism
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