
“I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.”
[199707300650.XAA05515@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
[199707300650.XAA05515@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.”
[199707300650.XAA05515@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
Volume 1, Ch. 11
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)
“It should be said that such an art would be neither more false nor more true than classical art.”
Cubism was born
“The past is… much more uncertain—or even falsely reported—than is usually recognized.”
Preface
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)
As expressed in Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (2003) by Peter Atkins, Ch. 10 "Arithmetic : The Limits of Reason", p. 333
Peano axioms
Context: 1. 0 is a number.
2. The immediate successor of a number is also a number.
3. 0 is not the immediate successor of any number.
4. No two numbers have the same immediate successor.
5. Any property belonging to 0 and to the immediate successor of any number that also has that property belongs to all numbers.
Variant: I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
Source: 1840s, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), Ch. 5
Context: I look upon my departure from Colonel Lloyd's plantation as one of the most interesting events of my life. It is possible, and even quite probable, that but for the mere circumstance of being removed from that plantation to Baltimore, I should have to-day, instead of being here seated by my own table, in the enjoyment of freedom and the happiness of home, writing this Narrative, been confined in the galling chains of slavery. Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity. I have ever regarded it as the first plain manifestation of that kind providence which has ever since attended me, and marked my life with so many favors. I regarded the selection of myself as being somewhat remarkable. There were a number of slave children that might have been sent from the plantation to Baltimore. There were those younger, those older, and those of the same age. I was chosen from among them all, and was the first, last, and only choice.
I may be deemed superstitions, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor. But I should be false to the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence. From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom. This good spirit was from God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise.
“The more false we destroy the more room there will be for the true.”
"Orthodoxy" (1884). The Complete Works of Robert G. Ingersoll (1902) Vol. 2. p. 343
“Better to be hated for being true than to be loved for being false.”
Original: Meglio essere odiati per essere veri che essere amati per essere falsi.
Source: prevale.net