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"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
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"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
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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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"Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications."
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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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"I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh."
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"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
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"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
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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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"Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity."
Work
"Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform."
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"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."
Error
"Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed."
Science
"The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages."
Science
"That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine."
Science
"The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person."
Fitness
"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity."
Information
"The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs."
Men
"The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures."
Time
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