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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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Imagine how dull life would be if variables assessed for admission to a graduate program really did predict who would succeed and…
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It is rather astonishing how little practical value scientific knowledge has for ordinary men, how dull and commonplace such of it as…
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No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
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Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull…
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How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe…
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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