Modern Set Theory

Famous quotes containing the words modern, set and/or theory:

“Insurance. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

“I do not set my life at a pin’s fee,
And for my soul, what can it do to that,
Being a thing immortal as itself?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Psychotherapy—The theory that the patient will probably get well anyway, and is certainly a damned ijjit.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)