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"No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite."
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"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."
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"You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!"
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"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"
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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"
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"I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes."
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"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
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"The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone."
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
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"He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him " possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he'd had since he thought, Hey, I'll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He'll love me for that!"
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"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."
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"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country."
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"No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite."
Idea
"Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself."
Science
"No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us."
Paradise
"Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists."
Physics
"If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology."
Men
"One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it."
Work
"How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments."
Science
"He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain."
Mind
"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
Mathematics
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