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"A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street."
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"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957."
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"I always begin to compose the melody first."
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"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."
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"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."
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"The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure."
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"The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn."
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"A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street."
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"How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments."
Science
"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man."
Man
"The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality."
Art
"Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists."
Physics
"If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?"
First
"The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science."
Science
"One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it."
Work
"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology."
Men
"He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain."
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