Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.
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No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.
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The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
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Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
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He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
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Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
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The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
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One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
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If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
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Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
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