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"Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis."
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"Life is defined by time and seasons."
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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."
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"Any moment which is not captured is loss in the events of time."
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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
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"Time is a concrete product."
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"Time must be converted into product."
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"The sacred-time determines the due events."
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"Time is thought."
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"Time is life."
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"Time is life. Time for birth, time for death."
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"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."
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"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."
Mathematicians


"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
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"I think Veblen had an interest in logic."
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"It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church."
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"Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D."
Church


"Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis."
Time


"When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that."
First


"And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished."
Church


"I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief."
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