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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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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated."
"It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer."
"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."
"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
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"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."
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