The beauty of mathematics is that it allows us to see the world in a way that is both precise and profound, revealing the underlying order that governs all things.

Every word is a step towards understanding, every sentence a bridge to another soul.

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.