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"Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness."
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"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
"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."
"I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh."
"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated."
"He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up and marched past his brain in terrified obedience. Division and multiplication were discovered. Algebra was invented and provided an interesting diversion for a minute or two. And then he felt the fog of numbers drift away, and looked up and saw the sparkling, distant mountains of calculus."
"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
"Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications."
"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
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