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"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
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"Few rounds.... I am damn good mathematician!2 999 999 999 999 999 999 + 11 999 999 999 999 999 999 = 14 999 999 999 999 999 998."
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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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"The flowering of geometry."
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"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
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"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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"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."
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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
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"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
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"Who will observe the observers?"
Will
"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum."
Army
"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."
Hope
"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
Proof
"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."
Debate
"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset."
Deals
"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."
Hope
"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."
Confidence
"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
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"Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo."
Nature
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