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"Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts."
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"The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality."
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"If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?"
"How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments."
"The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science."
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"One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it."
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