Vladimir Nabokov quote: Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with ...

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

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