"[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment."

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If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions thus suspended, then if you were really, really good at algebra you could write the formula for all the future; and although nobody can be so clever as to do it, the formula must exist just as if one could.

— Tom Stoppard