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"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."
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"The poor will look for many excuses why an idea can not be born, but the rich will also look for one excuse why an idea can be born."
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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."
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"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."
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"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."
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"There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line."
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"In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails."
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"Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires."
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"It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date."
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"I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right."
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"Ideas are the source of all things."
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"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."
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"I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art."
Art
"Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books."
Men
"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
"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
"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."
Ideas
"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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