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“The most important thing about mathematics is how it resides in the human brain.”
Foreword to Teichmüller Theory
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“The most important thing about education is appetite.”
“Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.”
Ways of Paradox and Other Essays (1976), p. 174
1970s
“The nice thing about mathematics is doing mathematics.”
Pierre Deligne in: Philip Ball. "Mathematician wins award for shaping algebra: 2013 Abel Prize goes to Belgian Pierre Deligne, who proved a deep conjecture about algebra and geometry." in Nature, 20 March 2013
“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”
“The most important things about the individual are what he cannot or will not say.”
Source: Projective methods for the study of personality (1939), p. 395