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Begin with the simplest examples.

We must know. We will know.

I didn't work especially hard at mathematics at school, because I knew that's what I'd be doing later.

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

One must be able to say at all times
instead of points, straight lines, and planes
tables, chairs, and beer mugs

Geometry is the most complete science.

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Some people have got a mental horizon of radius zero and call it their point of view.

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

Physics is much too hard for physicists.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.