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- Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play:…
- A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of…
- Perhaps five or even ten per cent of men can do something rather well. It is a tiny minority who can do anything really well,…
- For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.
- No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game
- I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics,…
- If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be far better than…
- I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of…
- I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers…
- No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will…
- No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died…
- Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate…
- I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember…
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