When Einstein Walked with Gödel

Part I: The Moving Image of Eternity

Part II: Numbers in the Brain, in Platonic Heaven, and in Society

Part III: Mathematics, Pure and Impure

8. Benoit Mandelbrot and the Discovery of Fractals

p. 92

Many neighbor “had been detained by their precious china, or inability to sell their Bösendorfer concert grand piano.”

p. 98

“We can easily afford a few great scientists doing their own thing.”

Part IV: Higher Dimensions, Abstract Maps

10. A Comedy of Colors

p. 126

It used to be said that a mathematics department was the second cheapest for a university to fund, since its members required only pencils, paper, and wastebaskets. (The cheapest would be philosophers, because they don't need the wastebaskets.)

Part V: Infinity, Large and Small

Part VI: Heroism, Tragedy, and the Computer Age

Part VII: The Cosmos Reconsidered

19. Einstein, “Spooky Action”, and the Reality of Space

p. 231

He dismissed the possibility of voodoo-like, space-defying, nonlocal influences as “spooky actions at a distance” (spukthafte Fernwirkung).

20. How Will the Universe End?

p. 245

Freeman Dyson: “how do you imagine a couple of kilograms of protoplasm in someone's skull being conscious?”

Part VIII: Quick Studies: A Selection of Shorter Essays

Part IX: God, Sainthood, Truth, and Bullshit