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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."
"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."
"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."
"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
"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 was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
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"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 have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature."
"It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset."
"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."
"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
"Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter."
"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."
"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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