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"Mathematicians are born, not made."
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"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
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"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."
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"Mathematicians are born, not made."
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"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."
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"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
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"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
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"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
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"Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years."
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"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
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"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure."
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"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."
Earth

"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."
Geometry

"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."
Cause

"The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."
Experience

"A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations."
Mind

"Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover."
Disease

"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"
Elegance

"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."
Nature

"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

"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."
Mathematicians
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