Andre Weil Quotes

#1. In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.

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#2. What is crucial is there be laws.

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#3. When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.

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#4. Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.

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#5. Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.

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#6. God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

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#7. First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

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