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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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"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 you want to be immortal, don't ever think about retirement."
"When you can't die, she thought, everything sounds like a clock ticking."
"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."
"The only way to survive after death is by breathing life into the universe before death."
"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."
"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."
"That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material."
"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."
"As the Self [Pure Soul], one never dies; it is only the beliefs that die."
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"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
"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."
"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."
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