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"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
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"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
"Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications."
"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."
"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."
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
"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."
""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
"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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"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."
"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."
"Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't."
"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."
"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."
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