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"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
"The square root of I is I."
"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
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"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
"It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control."
"We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and.""
"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset."
"If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation."
"Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight."
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