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Charles Caleb Colton

"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."

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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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