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Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
~ Simon Newcomb
Almost
Am
Born
Descent
England
I Am
New
New England
Nova
Nova Scotia
Pure
Though
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Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.
~ Simon Newcomb
About
Four
Grandfather
House
Little
Lived
Miles
Mouth
Name
Old
Pretty
River
Two
Until
Village
Wallace
Years
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We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.
~ Simon Newcomb
About
Astronomy
Know
Limit
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What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.
~ Simon Newcomb
Call
Constant
Could
Enjoyed
Fixed
Guidance
Hours
Now
Pursuit
Said
Scarcely
School
Stated
Studies
Teacher
Training
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When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.
~ Simon Newcomb
About
Above
Down
Fifteen
Great
Knife
Made
Man
Me
Meeting
Neck
Once
Out
Prayer
Scandal
Squeezed
Stood
Taking
While
Who
Young
Young Man
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Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.
~ Simon Newcomb
Accessible
Eclipse
Observe
Out
Parties
Region
Sent
Sun
Total
Visible
Were
Whenever
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It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
~ Sofia Kovalevskaya
Being
Impossible
Mathematician
Poet
Soul
Without
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Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
~ Sofia Kovalevskaya
About
Amount
Any
Arithmetic
Confuse
Consider
Great
Had
However
Imagination
Knowing
Many
Mathematics
More
Opportunity
Reality
Requires
Science
Which
Who
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Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.
~ Sofia Kovalevskaya
Come
Know
May
Must
Say
You
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A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
~ Stefan Banach
Analogy
Best
Better
Between
Find
Mathematician
Notice
Person
See
Theorems
Theories
Who
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Mathematics is as old as Man.
~ Stefan Banach
Man
Mathematics
Old
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Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
~ Stefan Banach
Beautiful
Creation
Human
Human Spirit
Mathematics
Most
Most Beautiful
Most Powerful
Powerful
Spirit
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One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
~ Stefan Banach
Analogy
Between
Imagine
Mathematician
See
Ultimate
Who
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And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished.
~ Stephen Cole Kleene
After
Church
Course
Developing
Finished
He
His
I Think
Just
Learned
New
Paper
Papers
Presented
Published
Second
System
Think
Trained
Two
Until
Us
Well
Were
Which
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As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.
~ Stephen Cole Kleene
About
Bring
Each
Effective
Had
Journal
Know
Mathematicians
Movement
Organization
Other
Philosophers
Say
Talk
Together
Try
Unless
Where
Would
You
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For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.
~ Stephen Cole Kleene
Could
Each
Example
For Example
Got
Interested
Journal
Logic
Logical
Mathematicians
Other
Philosophers
Publish
Rather
Same
Talk
Together
Us
Were
Who
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Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.
~ Stephen Cole Kleene
Course
Get
Here
Logic
Mathematical
Undergraduate
Until
Wisconsin
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I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.
~ Stephen Cole Kleene
Came
Ever
Him
Often
Post
Princeton
Remember
Seeing
Think
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I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
~ Stephen Cole Kleene
Amherst
Arts
Arts Education
College
Education
Had
Liberal
Liberal Arts
Majors
Mathematics
Philosophy
Two
Where
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I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.
~ Stephen Cole Kleene
Able
About
Because
Belief
Claim
Going
Good
Had
Hard
Just
Know
Other
Out
Philosophical
Philosophy
Prove
Some
Theories
Theory
Were
Whether
Worked
You
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