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"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."
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"Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period."
"Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind."
"While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in a straight line uncorrected by anything. But the habit of forming conclusions, as they can really be formed in more fruitful fields, is so fixed in the scientific mind that it cannot resist talking like this. It talks about the idea suggested by one scrap of bone as if it were something like the aeroplane which is constructed at last out of whole scrapheaps of scraps of metal. The trouble with the professor of the prehistoric is that he cannot scrap his scrap. The marvellous and triumphant aeroplane is made out of a hundred mistakes. The student of origins can only make one mistake and stick to it."
"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."
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"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."
"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application."
"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."
"I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now."
"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."
"Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time."
"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."
"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
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