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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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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."

"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."

"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."

"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."

"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."

"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."

"The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing."

""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."

"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated."

"I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."
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"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."

"Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool."

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"I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct."
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