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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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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that…
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My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of…
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Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to…
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The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn’t need to be read. You don’t have to read it. As a…
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Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget…
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I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted…
— Len Deighton
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Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James)
— Nora Barnacle
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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
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Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write,…
— Sharon Olds
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