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"Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics."
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"Few rounds.... I am damn good mathematician!2 999 999 999 999 999 999 + 11 999 999 999 999 999 999 = 14 999 999 999 999 999 998."
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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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"The flowering of geometry."
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"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
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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 was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."
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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
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"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
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"Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books."
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"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."
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"Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics."
Mathematics
"I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art."
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"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."
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"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
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"There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds."
Men
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