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"Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods."
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"The only way I could relax was when I was with my children."
Children
"I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof."
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"Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity."
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"That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest."
Mind
"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
Mathematics
"I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine."
Life
"There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years."
Time
"I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days."
Love
"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
Mathematicians
"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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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."
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"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."
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"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
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"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought."
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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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"Eternity eludes us, even as a thought."
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"The only way to make a great thought great is to share it."
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"Language is the dress of thought."
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"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."
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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
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