"Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it." --William James

"It may be objected by some that I have concentrated too much on the dry bones, and too little on the flesh which clothes them, but I would ask such critics to concede at least that the bones have an austere beauty of their own." --A.B. Pippard

A reading group of cold calculation. Join if you dare. The choice is yours.