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"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
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"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."
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"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."
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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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"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated."
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"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."
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"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."
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"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
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"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
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"Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists."
Physics
"He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain."
Mind
"Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself."
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"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man."
Man
"The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality."
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"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."
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"Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts."
Science
"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology."
Men
"The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science."
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"How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments."
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