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If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer chance of…
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[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be…
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A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising…
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A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or…
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No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to…
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,…
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As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
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Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
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Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',…
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which…
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I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good…
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As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
— G. H. Hardy
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There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would…
— Ben Bernanke
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History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.
— Irving Langmuir
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The pernicious influence of the prize and medal giving in art is so great that it should be stopped. History proves that…
— Robert Henri
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind…
— Vladimir Putin
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History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity.
— Holbrook Jackson
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People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.
— Libba Bray
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It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood.…
— Mark Levin
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History proves nothing because it contains everything.
— Emile M. Cioran
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We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
— Terry Hands
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History proves that the white man is a devil.
— Malcolm X
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