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"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
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"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
Mathematics
"In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine."
Family
"Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D."
Church
"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
Books
"It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church."
Work
"I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe."
Ideas
"And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished."
Church
"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."
Logic
"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
First
"I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two."
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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."
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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
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"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
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"What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for."
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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."
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"I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger."
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"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
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