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    If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles.

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    People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it’s the stuff we CAN understand. It’s cats that are complicated.

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    The Nazis victimized some people for what they did, some for what they refused to do, some for what they were, and some for the fact that they were.

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    ... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then, when I discovered surreal numbers, I realized that playing games IS math.