Hors d’oeuvres (XII)

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Full knowledge is doubtless impossible in the case of anything so wildly complex as an acorn or a rock;  but in the case of something simple, like Hilbert Space (infinite-dimensional, it is true, but tamed by a norm that is based upon an inner product), we can perhaps come close to exhausting most of what can be known of it.

In “Memento”, every each least action is serious stuff ….

We embrace the phenomenal world (beginning with the breast)  with the same uncomprehending acceptance with which we receive the Host.

Shopper:  Dunno.  Does it make me look fat?

The typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays  and a formalist on Sundays.

God himself may draw vital strength and increase of very being  from our fidelity.