There are no sects in geometry

Universal religion? Voltaire said it best:

There are no sects in geometry. One does not speak of a Euclidean, an Archimedean. When the truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to arise.... Well, to what dogma do all minds agree? To the worship of a God, and to honesty. All the philosophers of the world who have had a religion have said in all ages: "There is a God, and one must be just." There, then, is the universal religion established in all ages and throughout mankind. The point in which they all agree is therefore true, and the systems through which they differ are therefore false. - Reflections on Religion

Quoted in a wonderful article in The Nation, "Our Godless Constitution" by Brooke Allen: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050221&c=1&s=allen


The man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. - Muhammad Ali