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"To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."

"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated."

"It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer."

"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."

"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."

"The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing."

"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."

"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."

"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."

"Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness."
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"Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate."

"For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear."

"To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be."
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