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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."
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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."
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"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."
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"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."
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"God is only a great imaginative experience."
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"Experience, derived from scientific investigation, led to all the scientific literature in history. Likewise, experience, derived from religious transcendence, led to all the religious scriptures in history. It's never the other way around."
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"With action experience grows, with travel outlooks grow, and with reflections wisdom grows."
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"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."
Immortality
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
Difficulty
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
Mathematics
""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
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."
Meeting
"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
Machine
"Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler."
Fashion
"Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us."
Time
"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
"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
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