It’s remarkable that we know anything about antiquity. And therefore every tiny fragment of information we have is important, and we milk whatever we have for what it’s worth.
Myself and Edward and others at the IAS are studying the interactions of anyons, how to describe them theoretically, and how to produce them out of ordinary matter.
Clay Cordova in Topology and Physics
Langlands showed how the same formula can originate from two entirely different worlds of thought. To employ another metaphor: it is as if two chefs cooking with two entirely different recipes, ingredients, and methods of preparation, produce exactly the same dish.
Robbert Dijkgraaf in A Mathematical Rosetta Stone
A naturalized belief in the necessary and immutable difference of the sexes provides legitimation for the organization of other social and political inequalities; in turn the legitimation invoked by politics, establishes the immutability of biology.
Joan Wallach Scott in The Persistence of Gender Inequality
