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"Fermat said he had a proof."
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"Gnani' [the enlightened one] is He who gives proof of whatever He says. He would not say, 'All that I have said is correct; you will have to accept it'."
"Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself."
"Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one."
"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof."
"Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted."
"Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible."
"I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof."
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"I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine."
"It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day."
"Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity."
"I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future."
"There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years."
"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."
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