Everyone Knows That Space Is Very Very Cold, And The Sun Is Very Very Hot. So I Assume There's A Bit

russian roullette but it's just a physics student with anxiety drinking lots of coffee everyday without knowing which day will be the day their anxiety will kill them

“Whatever — the soup is getting cold.”

— Last sentence of a mathematical theorem in Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, 1518 (x)

“The corruption begins with the mouth, the tongue, the wanting. The first poem in the world is I want to eat.”

— Erica Jong, from “Where It Begins,” Fruits & Vegetables: Poems By Erica Jong (Holt, 1971)

— Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics

snowdrops by Louise Glück

i think aliens should stop by, give the answer to an unsolved math problem, not explain it, and then leave

laughing with your friends and eating good food are kind of the whole point of life

The thing about the philosophy of mathematics is that there's no articulable position so absurd that some influential mathematician hasn't genuinely held to it. You 100% cannot troll these people; you could walk up to a mathematician and say "I'm a radical finitist, I reject the existence of all numbers larger than 1", and not only would that turn out to be a real thing, some maniac has worked out how to construct set theory under its constraints.