On Physics

...Einstein had said, "You know, once you start calculating (with abstract mathematics) you shit yourself up before you know it."

But suddenly, in 1912, he developed a fondness for this mess. Perhaps he saw darkly what Heisenberg would see very clearly: the 20th century would have a love affair with shit.

The century proved this in every field, from art to math to science to war to politics to entertainment to sex. The century loved nothing so much as watching someone foul himself in public, as long as that someone could sell the spectacle as a transcendent event.

- Miles Mathis Death by Mathematics