“This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.”
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But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.
The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.
I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.