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"Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover."
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"Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout."
"I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation."
"Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover."
"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
"Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease."
"It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass."
"We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease."
"Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors."
"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
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"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
"The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law."
"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics."
"To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
"It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details."
"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."
"Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence."
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