Ramanujan (with apologies to Apple)
Men despise religion; they hate it, and they fear it is true.
Pascal, from Pensées, 1670.
I fear we shall remain for along time in our present confusion and indigence through our own fault. I even fear that after uselessly exhausting curiosity without obtaining from our investigations any considerable gain for our happiness, people may be disgusted with the sciences, and that a fatal despair may cause them to fall back into barbarism. To which result that horrible mass of books that keeps on growing might contribute very much. For in the end, the disorder will become nearly insurmountable; the indefinite multitude of authors will shortly expose them all to the danger of general oblivion; the hope of glory aninimating many people at work in studies will suddenly cease; it will perhaps be as disgraceful to be an author as it was formerly honourable.
Leibnitz, 1680
Untitled (Paperbacks), Rachel Whiteread, 1997
