"It is with mathematics not otherwise than it is with music, painting or poetry. Anyone can become a lawyer, doctor or chemist, and as such may succeed well, provided he is clever and industrious, but not every one can become a painter, or a musician, or a mathematician: general cleverness and industry alone count here for nothing."
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Ueber die Anlage zur Mathematik (1900) р. 5. Memorabilia Mathematica (1914), p. 184, no. 1107
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