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"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."
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"Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. Love alone had awakened her sleeping soul and had made it deathless.She knew she was immortal."
"When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again."
"The only way to survive after death is by breathing life into the universe before death."
"Man will find his own structured words,which will transfigure his into immortal."
"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."
"Need for immortality should be added on top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs."
"Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it wasn't anymore. Not really. I eluded it. Tricked it. It was an odd concept-the world aged, moved forward, yet I . . . didn't."
"When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the wind."
"Immortal amarant, a flower which onceIn paradise, fast by the tree of life,Began to bloom; but soon for man's offenceTo heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows,And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life,And where the river of bliss through midst of heavenRolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream:With these that never fade the spirits electBind their resplendent locks."
"If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality."
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"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
"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."
"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."
"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
"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."
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
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