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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 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 later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release."
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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 did have strange ideas during certain periods of time."
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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 had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location."
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"I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house."
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"The flowering of geometry."
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"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
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"The square root of I is I."
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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."
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"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
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"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
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"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
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