¶ Mathematics
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Mathematics:
"I was fortunately not as consumed with negativism in respect to professional mathematics as with a positive urge to explore the possibility that nature might employ a comprehensive coordinate system governing all her associative and disassociative, nonsimultaneous, usually dissynchronous but sometimes synchronous transformative transactions. I felt certain that nature did not have separate departments of physics, chemistry, biology, cryogenics, crystallography, Mathematics et al., between whose department heads’ compromises were mass concluded in order to expedite nature’s awkward and ever urgent demands.
“I conjectured that we could think conceptually in generalized principles in contradistinction to special case empirics and that we might logically hypothesize either (a) that mathematics was entirely physical, or (b) that the physical was in reality pure abstract principle; that you could play the game either way-- both were valid, but not simultaneously-- that there certainly were not two absolutely separate and independently operating Universes; the abstract Universe of the mathematician and the energetic Universe of the physio-chemist.”
