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"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."

"The square root of I is I."

"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."

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

"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."

""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."

"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."

"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
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"The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it."

"You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise."

"We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed."

"The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing."

"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."
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