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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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"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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"We used to hold those secret meetings at her house."
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"The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism."
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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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"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
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"I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings."
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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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"We have meetings with our record label to tell them how to market us."
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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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"We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan."
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"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
Mathematics
"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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"Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler."
Fashion
"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
"The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular."
Doubt
"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
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"Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth."
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"Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us."
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"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
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