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"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."
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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."

"I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation."

"Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today."

"The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in."

"Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them."

"I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."
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