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Andre Weil has 7 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely…
• Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another…
• Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
• First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
• What is crucial is there be laws.
• In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one…
• God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

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