A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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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 the amenity of the world.
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Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.
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