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"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
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"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."

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"There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation."
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