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"Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover."
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"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
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"The dancing sickness took place during the latter part of the fifteenth century. Bubonic plague--the black death--decimated Europe near the end of the fourteenth. Whooping cough near the end of the seventeenth, and the first known outbreaks of influenza near the end of the nineteenth. We've become so used to the idea of the flu--it seems almost like the common cold to us, doesn't it?--that no one but the historians seem to know that a hundred years ago it didn't exist."
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"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
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"Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease."
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"With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do."
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"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
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"Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation."
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"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility."
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"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."
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"I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it."
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"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."
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"Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority."
Infinite
"Facts do not speak."
Fact
"If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws."
Law
"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."
Thought
"If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing."
Deep
"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."
Ideas
"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."
Balance
"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"
Elegance
"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
Life
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