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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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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

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If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

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