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"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
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"The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular."
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