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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
"The square root of I is I."
"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
"He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up and marched past his brain in terrified obedience. Division and multiplication were discovered. Algebra was invented and provided an interesting diversion for a minute or two. And then he felt the fog of numbers drift away, and looked up and saw the sparkling, distant mountains of calculus."
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"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."
"Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it."
"Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false."
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
"He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later."
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