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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."
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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
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"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
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"The flowering of geometry."
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"The square root of I is I."
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"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
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"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."
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"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
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"There should be no such thing as boring mathematics."
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"If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard."
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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."
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"I had not yet gotten into the world of light. But I felt as one who, standing outside, could knock against the wall and hear an answering knock from within."
Light
"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."
Science
"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher."
Life
"Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird."
Will
"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."
Men
"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."
America
"One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars."
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"In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes."
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