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"I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."
"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."
"It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities."
"If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr."
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
"A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight."
"The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool."
"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
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"The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic."
"To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years."
"You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length."
"I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible."
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
"To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings."
"It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation."
"We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori."
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