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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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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated."
"It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer."
"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."
"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
"The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing."
"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."
"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
"Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness."
"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
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