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"I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof."
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"Fermat said he had a proof."
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"Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted."
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"Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one."
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"Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible."
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"I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof."
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"The proof of your love for God is seen in your service to men."
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"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof."
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"Gnani' [the enlightened one] is He who gives proof of whatever He says. He would not say, 'All that I have said is correct; you will have to accept it'."
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"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
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"Fermat said he had a proof."
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"But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library."
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"I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal."
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"Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity."
Infinity
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
Mathematics
"I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine."
Life
"I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did."
Achievement
"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."
Mathematics
"I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years."
Time
"There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today."
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