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"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
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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."
"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."
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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
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"A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street."
"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."
"The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality."
"If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?"
"Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts."
"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."
"One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it."
"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."
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