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"Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness."
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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
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"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
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"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
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"The flowering of geometry."
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"The square root of I is I."
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"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
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"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."
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"Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit."
Society
"People happy in love have an air of intensity."
Love
"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness."
Happiness
"This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom."
Age
"The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."
Art
"Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion."
Woman
"It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now."
Literature
"Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one."
Business
"People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story."
People
"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."
Pleasure
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