Martin Gardner Quotes
As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.
Gardner, Martin. The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener. William Morrow and Company, 1983, p. 30.
This was the origin of the first part of John Adams famous quoation {310967}
Martin Gardner was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was also a leading authority on Lewis Carroll. The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and was regarded as one of the most important magicians of the twentieth century. He was considered the doyen of American puzzlers. He was a prolific and versatile author, publishing more than 100 books.
