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"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
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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."
"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
"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 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 was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."
"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
"The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing."
""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
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"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.""
"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."
"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
"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."
"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset."
"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."
"If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum."
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