It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
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Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.E. T. Bell
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
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