Freeman Dyson
The author calls mathematicians who take a lofty conceptual view of their subject birds and those who work in details and solve their problems consecutively frogs. The author shows, by examples from the past and his personal acquaintance, how both types have advanced mathematics.
(pp. 212)
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John H. Conway and Simon Kochen
The authors prove that three of the basic axioms of relativity and quantum mechanics have the consequence that the response of a certain type of particle to a certain type of experiment is independent of the universe prior to this response. Or, as the authors put it, "If humans have free will [in choosing the orientation for the apparatus in the experiment], then elementary particles...share this valuable commodity."
(pp. 226)
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