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"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."
"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."
"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
"Few rounds.... I am damn good mathematician!2 999 999 999 999 999 999 + 11 999 999 999 999 999 999 = 14 999 999 999 999 999 998."
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"What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed."
"The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war."
"The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington."
"As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest."
"In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate."
"My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology."
"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."
"The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme."
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