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"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated."
"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."
"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."
"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
"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."
"I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics."
"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."
"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
"To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be."
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"The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches."
"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure."
"Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs."
"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
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