<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477456" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sailing in Sinbad's Uncharted Sea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Probing the stars and the cosmos<br>With science, poetry and art<br>We expand constantly further and farther, <br>Exploring the shores of the unplumbed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We are space travelers <br>in an endless imaginary universe and<br>in many ways our journeys are not unlike <br>the fantastic voyages of Sinbad the Sailor<br>throughout the enchanted Seven Seas.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sailing the stormy oceans <br>of the boundless unknown<br>we travel in brassy ships loaded<br>with the heavy cargoes of refined words, <br>elegant forms and amorphous ideas.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet even the most precise tool<br>in our arsenal, Mathematics, <br>turns to be a social construct: <br>An invented world.<br>After all, numbers don't grow on trees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As it turns out, the correlation<br>between mathematics and nature<br>does not have a secure base.<br>The arithmetic anchor can not hold<br>the boat of the infinite.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nevertheless, the human mind<br>is a fascinating macrocosm.<br>It mirrors the creative forces<br>of the physical world, <br>of which we are an integral part. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so, in the final analysis, <br>Mathematics, science and art <br>are all invented worlds, <br>creative semiotic ventures.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We live in a metaphoric universe.<br>We perceive, envision, structure<br>and interpret reality by ways of symbols.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477456" data-title="Sailing in Sinbad's Uncharted Sea de Paul Hartal" data-description="Probing the stars and the cosmos With science, poetry and art We expand constantly further and farther, Exploring the shores of the unplumbed. We are space travelers in an endless imaginary universe and in many ways our journeys are not unlike ..."></div> </div> </div>

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