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• I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether…
• It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group.…
• In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from…
• I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his…
• A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently…
• I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought…
• A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open,…
• The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.
• The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to…
• A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the…
• It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven…
• The infinitely competent can be uncreative.

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