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"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."

"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."

"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."

"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."

"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."

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

"The square root of I is I."

"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."

"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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"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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