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When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.

— John von Neumann

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Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

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