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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 finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
"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."
"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
"Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications."
"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
"The square root of I is I."
"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
"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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"You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise."
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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."
"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."
"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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