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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 true; indeed it…
- A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes…
- Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even…
- [P]ure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly…
- Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in…
- There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.
- It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to…
- No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game
- Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets
- The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more
- The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the…
- I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more…
- The fact is there are few more popular subjects than mathematics. Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a…
- 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…
- There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those which look the…
- A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are…
- 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…
- A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they…
- 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…
- There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition,…
- Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly…
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