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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
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"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."
"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
"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."
"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
"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."
"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
"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 always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
"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."
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
"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."
"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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