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"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
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"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."
"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure."
"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know."
"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."
"Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years."
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"Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated."
"You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length."
"We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori."
"The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic."
"To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years."
"The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it."
"I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect."
"To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings."
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