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"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
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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."
"Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness."
"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."
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"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum."
"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 have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature."
"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
"It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star."
"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."
"It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory."
"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.""
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