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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
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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."
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"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
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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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"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 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."
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"The flowering of geometry."
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"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
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"The mathematics is not there till we put it there."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
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"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."
Contentment
"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear."
Fear
"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength."
Strength
"If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition."
Thought
"Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another."
Courage
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."
Flattery
"Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."
Integrity
"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
Success
"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."
Health
"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good."
Life
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