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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
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"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
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"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
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"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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"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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"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."
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"Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
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"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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"Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler."
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"The flowering of geometry."
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"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."
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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."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
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"The square root of I is I."
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"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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"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
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"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
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"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
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