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"If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?"
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"The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science."

"A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street."

"One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it."

"The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality."

"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology."

"He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain."

"Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself."

"Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts."

"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."
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