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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 whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded."
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"It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences."
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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."
"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
"The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future."
"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."
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