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title: "1 Close Paralysis Quotes By Andre Weil"
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> [When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-weil/when-a-branch-of-mathematics-ceases-to-interest-any-but-the/)

[Andre Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-weil/)

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## More by Andre Weil

> [What is crucial is there be laws.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-weil/what-is-crucial-is-there-be-laws/)

[Andre Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-weil/)

> [When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-weil/when-a-branch-of-mathematics-ceases-to-interest-any-but-the/)

[Andre Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-weil/)

> [First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-weil/first-rate-mathematicians-choose-first-rate-people-but-second-rate/)

[Andre Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-weil/)

> [Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-weil/every-mathematician-worthy-of-the-name-has-experienced-the-state-of/)

[Andre Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-weil/)

> [ In the future, as in the past, the great ideas \[of mathematics\] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-weil/in-the-future-as-in-the-past-the-great-ideas-of-mathematics-must-be/)

[Andre Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-weil/)

> [Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-weil/rigour-is-to-the-mathematician-what-morality-is-to-men/)

[Andre Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-weil/)

> [God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-weil/god-exists-since-mathematics-is-consistent-and-the-devil-exists-since/)

[Andre Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-weil/)

> [Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-weil/intuition-makes-much-of-it-i-mean-by-this-the-faculty-of-seeing-a/)

[Andre Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-weil/)

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