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"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."
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"I have no specific ideas in mind of what I will or won't do; it's all about the roles."
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"I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation."
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"I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc."
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"Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today."
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"The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in."
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"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."
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"I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece."
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"I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."
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"All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person."
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"There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds."
Men
"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
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"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."
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"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."
Time
"Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books."
Men
"I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art."
Art
"Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics."
Mathematics
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