It symbolizes neither one nor the other, but a mixture of the two without priority - Isaac Asimov

Where did the substance of the universe come from? . . If 0 equals ( + 1) + (-1),
then something which is 0 might just as well become + 1 and -1. Perhaps in an
infinite sea of nothingness, globs of positive and negative energy in equal-sized pairs
are constantly forming, and after passing through evolutionary changes, combining
once more and vanishing. We are in one of these globs between nothing and nothing
and wondering about it.

Modern theoretical mathematicians frown at this and make haughty remarks such as "But you are making the unwarranted assumption that the line is the same length when it is straight as when it was curved." I imagine the honest workman organizing the construction of the local temple, face with such an objection, would have solved matters by throwing the objector into the River Nile.

I don’t say it was deliberate fraud. He was probably madly sincere, and sincerely mad.