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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…
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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…
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A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising…
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A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or…
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No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to…
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word,…
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As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.
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Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.
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Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',…
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which…
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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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A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising…
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If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence,…
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And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my…
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There is something essential about joining together with other believers to worship, to sing, to pray, to learn of God's will for…
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To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs:…
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It will feel impossible; like you are dying inside this is your soul crying out for life. It may take everything you…
— Bryant H. McGill
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For a moment Clary thought she might fall; she felt as if something essential had been torn away from her, an arm…
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... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a…
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i'm beginning to feel like this. caught the incredible sunshine just in the nick of time today on my walk. the wall…
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In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.
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As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,…
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At the core of our existence, we all experience the basic ache of feeling separate. We long to be united with someone…
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