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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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"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."
"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
"Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications."
"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."
"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
"Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics."
"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
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