“Two dangers threaten the world—order and disorder.”

—  John Allen Paulos , book A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper

Source: A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995), Chapter 27, “Special Investigator Says Full Story Not Told” (p. 123; quoting Paul Valéry)

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