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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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"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
"When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking."
"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."
"Hmph. Yes. Him. He had the nerve to turn down our offer of immortality and tell us to pay better attention to our children. Er, no offense. "Oh, how could I take offense? Please, go on ignoring me."
"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."
"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."
"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."
"That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material."
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"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."
"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."
"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."
"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."
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
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