One Stone

Thought this was an incredibly cool piece of trivia, found browsing through a book entitled One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers:

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This technological connection is not what the logicians of 1900 had in mind: they were hoping to give a complete foundation for knowledge and truth, and might be surprised that the twenty-first century would open with this universal ambition largely abandoned.

In contrast, physics has never given up hope of supplying a complete explanation, and has undiminished ambitions for a single ‘theory of everything.’ A better word for this ambition might be a monolithic theory, for ‘monolith’, Greek for ‘one stone’, is translated into German as Einstein.

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Neat, huh?