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Quotes from The Role of Mathematics in the Sciences and in Society — John von Neumann

1903–1957 Hungary

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A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know in what area it would become useful; and there were no general indications that it ever would be so.

The Role of Mathematics in the Sciences and in Society (1954)

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