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irrelevancies. The mathematics is not the means to conceal the in- 

 comprehensible. It is merely the agent that permits us to deal with 

 the verbally inexpressible. Not halted at some "natural" limit, we are 

 instead set free to pursue still further that reckless endeavor to grasp 

 the world which is the enterprise of science. 



And the pursuit whose quest is Nature's understanding, 

 has this among its rewards, that as it progresses its truth is 

 testable. Truth is a "value." The quest itself therefore is in a 

 measure its own satisfaction. We receive the lesson that our 

 advance to knowledge is of asymptotic type, even as contin- 

 ually approaching so continually without arrival. The satis- 

 faction shall therefore be eternal. —Sherrington 



