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"If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."
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"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."
"Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake."
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"The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult."
"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."
"Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors."
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"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."
"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."
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