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To each among you, we have prescribed a law and a way for acting. If God has so willed, He might have made you a single community, but [He has not done so] that He might test you in what He has given you; so compete in goodness. Qu'ran, 5:48

..., [...], [...), (...], (...), ... firstness and lastness ... outwardness and inwardness ... Valley of Unity, 7V4V, Bahá'u'lláh

The real end of science is the honor of the human mind. Carl Gustave Jacobi (1804-1851)

It is true that a mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a perfect mathematician. Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897)

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean. G H Hardy (1877 - 1947)

Familiarity with numbers acquired by innate faculty sharpened by assiduous practice does give insight into the profounder theorems of algebra and analysis. Alexander Craig Aitken (1895-1967)

... mathematics is the only infinite human activity. Paul Erdös (1913-1996)