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"Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us."
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"The value of time is immeasurable."
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
"Don't equate effective living to being busy."
"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."
"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."
"Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us."
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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."
"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."
"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."
"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."
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
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