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"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
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"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
"To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be."
"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
"It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer."
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
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"I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research."
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"I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release."
"I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health."
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"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
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