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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
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Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
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Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
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If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.
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What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?
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Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
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If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.
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In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.
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Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
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It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.
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Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
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