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My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.
I was a mathematician by nature, and still am - I just knew I didn't want to be a mathematician. So I decided not to take any mathematics courses.
I do not wish to produce prose that draws attention to itself, rather than the world it describes.
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.