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"Mathematicians are born, not made."
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"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
"Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years."
"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know."
"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."
"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure."
"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."
"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
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"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."
"To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."
"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"
"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."
"If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment."
"The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful."
"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."
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