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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."
"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
"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."
"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
"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."
"To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be."
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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
"The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses."
"Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories."
"Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?"
"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."
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