#meaningless

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. ↗

— David Hilbert

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I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. ↗

— David Antin

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If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper. ↗

— E. T. Bell

#experience #game #indeed #making #marks

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. ↗

— Aristotle Onassis

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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ↗

— Octavio Paz

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Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

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So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

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I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me. ↗

— Kate Smith

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