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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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"Few rounds.... I am damn good mathematician!2 999 999 999 999 999 999 + 11 999 999 999 999 999 999 = 14 999 999 999 999 999 998."
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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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"The flowering of geometry."
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"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
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"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
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"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
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"The square root of I is I."
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"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
Life
"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."
Memory
"The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help."
Time
"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
People
"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
Anger
"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
Books
"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."
Poetry
"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."
Friendship
"Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence."
Love
"Nothing happens unless first we dream."
Dream
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