Isadore Singer quotes
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“It's true we pure mathematicians are connected to a different world. But it is a very real world nevertheless.”
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“I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.”
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“I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what I do. My neighbors wonder why I spend all my time in my study scribbling with pencil on a yellow pad of paper instead of going outside to mow the lawn.”
-- Isadore Singer
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“There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”
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“I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.”
Source : A.S. King (2010). “Please Ignore Vera Dietz”, p.29, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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