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"He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain."
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"Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be lost forever. It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again."

"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to."

"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."
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"How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments."

"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."

"Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts."

"One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it."

"A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street."

"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."

"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology."

"If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?"
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