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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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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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"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
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"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
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"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
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"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."
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"If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper."
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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
Mathematics
"Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about."
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"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
Mathematics
"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
Machine
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
Difficulty
"Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler."
Fashion
"Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth."
Science
"The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular."
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