Robert M. Pirsig Quotes About Mathematics

Quotes about: Mathematics

• ... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Believe, Law

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.41, Harper Collins

• Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Simple, Oxygen

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

• Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed thing is a human invention, including the idea that it isn't a human invention.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Blessed, Law, Ideas

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.43, Harper Collins

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