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"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
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"The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission."
"I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up."
"It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else."
"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine."
"Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine."
"When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg."
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"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."
"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."
"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
"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."
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
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