"Too much knowledge could be a bad thing. I was lead to the SzemerÃ©di theorem by proving a result, about squares, that Euler had already proven, and I relied on an "obvious" fact, about arithmetical progressions, that was unproved at the time. But that lead me to try and prove that formerly unproved statement- about arithmetical progressions-and that ultimately lead to the SzemerÃ©di Theorem."

-- Endre Szemeredi

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“In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.”
“I always hear people saying, "If I can just help one person, or if I can just stop one person from doing what I did." I don't think one person is enough. I feel you can help more than one person, help as many as you can. That's something that I would like to leave as my legacy: That I helped a lot of people and made some people make better decisions after looking at the decisions I've made in my life.”
“Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.”
“I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.”
“She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out of a soiled chemise.”
“When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.”
“See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.”
“This isn't romance. This isn't a declaration of love or affirmation of friendship. This is something more.”

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