[offensive to non-mathematicians; very small apologies to Cantor] Based on Bauvards corollary (below) to Einsteins famous quote, henceforward, I shall find it commodious to ask What is the cardinality of your stupidity? :-) “Einstein’s remark on the limitlessness of human stupidity is made even more disturbing by the discovery that infinity comes in different sizes. Answering ‘How much stupider?’ or trying to measure the minimal idiocy bounded by an IQ test are mysteries which are themselves infinitely less alarming than simply attempting to tally the anti-savant population. One can count all the natural idiots (they’re the same as the even number of idiots – twice as many), but the number of real idiots continues forever: all the counting idiots (finger reckoners) plus all the fractional idiots (geniuses on a bad day) plus all the irrational idiots (they go on and on and on) add up to a world in which the approaching upper limit of our set of natural resources has its complement in the inexhaustible lower limit of our set of mental ones.” ― Bauvard, Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:24:33 +0000
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