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"Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us."
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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
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"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."
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"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."
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"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
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"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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"The value of time is immeasurable."
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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
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"If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper."
Experience
""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
Mathematics
"Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about."
Meeting
"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."
Immortality
"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."
Art
"Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us."
Time
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
Mathematics
"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
Machine
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
Difficulty
"Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler."
Fashion
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