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But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
Andrew Wiles
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It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
Andrew Wiles
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I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about.
Andrew Wiles
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I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
Andrew Wiles
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Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
Andrew Wiles
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A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
Gersonides
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Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
Andrew Wiles
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Always try the problem that matters most to you.
Andrew Wiles
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Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. Fermat's Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this.
Andrew Wiles
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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
Andrew Wiles
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I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
Andrew Wiles
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No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.
Bertrand Russell
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People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
Stephen Hawking
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
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The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
Thomas Malthus
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Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
Aristotle
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it is the exact opposite.
Paul Dirac
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Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us not the particular shape of such and such an animal, but the general procedures of nature in the animal's production and preservation.
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
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"The late F. W. H. Myers used to tell how he asked a man at a dinner table what he thought would happen to him when he died. The man tried to ignore the question, but, on being pressed, replied: ""Oh well, I suppose I shall inherit eternal bliss, but I wish you wouldn't talk about such unpleasant subjects."""
Bertrand Russell
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Set goals, challenge yourself, and achieve them. Live a healthy life...and make every moment count. Rise above the obstacles, and focus on the positive.
Robert H. Goddard
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Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'
Aristotle
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During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.
Henry Adams
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Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.
Vladimir Arnold
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