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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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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
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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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"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
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"The flowering of geometry."
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"The square root of I is I."
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"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
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"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."
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"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
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"The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it."
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"You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise."
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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."
Mathematics
"Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists."
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"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated."
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"The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing."
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"We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed."
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