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"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
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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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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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"The flowering of geometry."
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"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
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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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"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."
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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
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"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
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"My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist."
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"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."
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"My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day."
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"I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view."
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"My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space."
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"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
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"I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective."
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"However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II."
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"On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego."
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"In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed."
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