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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…
• [Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be…
• A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising…
• A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or…
• No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to…
• Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,…
• As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
• Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
• Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',…
• I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
• I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which…
• 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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