When leading church elders posted the wedding banns on the church doors in Cornwall, Connecticut, in the summer of 1825, all hell broke loose.
The historical approach is not only useful, it is necessary. I talk now as a Muslim scholar. We need to change our approach to our own intellectual and legal tradition and its holy texts.
Hassan Ansari in The Necessity of a Historical Approach to Islamic Theology
It was very hard to write a paper about it. I felt like someone who had discovered the meaning of life and couldn’t explain it to anybody else.
Edward Witten in Geometric Langlands, Khovanov Homology, String Theory
Does Hilbert’s hotel (a hotel with infinitely many rooms) ever fail to accommodate new guests? Is there an infinity that is too large for Hilbert’s hotel?
Ana Rita Pires in Hospitality at the Hilbert Hotel
