Category: Arbitrary

“Thoroughgoing ignorance about the ways of others is largely a privilege of the powerful.”

– Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism, p. xviii.

[To all people out there on the Internets that find this hilarious: the chances are high that you & I will get along][How many of Us are There?]

‘mizu ni nagasu’ – ‘Let Flow the Water’

“The depth of darkness into which you can descend, and still live, is an exact measure, I believe, of the height to which you can aspire to reach.”

– Alan McGlashan, in a private letter to Laurens van der Post

ג וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר.

[3. And God said: ‘Let there be light.’ And there was light.]

– God, Genesis 1.

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– James Clerk Maxwell (1865), ‘A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 155, p. 459-512.

Could our Universe have a Moebius-like topology disallowing incongruent counterparts?