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“Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.”
“With mathematics we stand precisely at that intersection of bondage and freedom that is the essence of the human itself.”
“My work has always tried to unite the True with the Beautiful and when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the Beautiful.”
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became one of the m...”