Alexander Grothendieck Quotes
If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number" nor "size", but always form. And among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.
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I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.
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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a form of money that's a stable field that the government can't destroy and can't distort. Because its creation is governed by the laws of mathematics. It can't happen any faster or slower than a certain rate, and it all sort of self-adjusts.
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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.
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The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, 'What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?'
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
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The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
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It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.
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I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.
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& I'm all up all up all up in the bank with the funny face
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I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.
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I'm always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote, you know, some sort of a face-off.
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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
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A good glass of red wine or maybe a little bit too much every now and then is just fine. Heavy boozing, not so much, because you don't recover enough from it.
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A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious, such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its first relevance.
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If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.
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If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number" nor "size", but always form. And among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.
