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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…
• A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or…
• I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good…
• The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit…
• As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of…
• The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.
• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do…
• 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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