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"Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about."
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"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
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"We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting."
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"I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene period of a northern and southern fauna."
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"And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings."
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"I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers."
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"We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas."
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"Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing."
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"I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room."
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"We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us."
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"Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about."
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"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."
Art
"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
Machine
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
Difficulty
"Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler."
Fashion
"Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth."
Science
"Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us."
Time
"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."
Immortality
"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
Argument
""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
Mathematics
"If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper."
Experience
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