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"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
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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."

"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."

"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 went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy."

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

"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."

"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."

"To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be."

"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
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"The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure."

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"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
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