"What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer."

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Source : Salomon Bochner “Collected Papers of Salomon Bochner”, American Mathematical Soc.

Salomon Bochner

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“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.”
“The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.”
“Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.”
“No president in modern times has come to power with less political experience or less managerial experience. On the other hand, no president has come to power with a clearer record of political extremism. As senator, Barack Obama had the most left-wing voting record in the Senate. . . .”
“you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.”
“I don't think film schools are mentoring kids. I think they just send them through the curriculum, so now you know how to hold a camera, how to use a Dx3 menu. You can learn that in five minutes from somebody that doesn't even know anything. But what do you know if you haven't read anything - studied art and studied literature - what do you have to contribute?”
“I want Godâ€™s Word to get into our bone marrow and change the way we walk...change what we do...change how we think.”
“It would look like a notebook with dividers, and there'd be different subjects and things [preschoolers] could do, so that they could feel like they were going to school also.”

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