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"Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books."
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"Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation."
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"He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods."
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"Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood."
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"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
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"Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair."
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"I've always liked men better than women."
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"And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold."
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"All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women."
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"Men's vows are women's traitors!"
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"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
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"Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books."
Men
"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not."
Ideas
"There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds."
Men
"Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics."
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"I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art."
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"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."
Time
"A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas."
Ideas
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