"Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician."
— David Hilbert

January 1, 1970

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Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry, as quoted in [http://books.google.com/?id=nnpChqstvg0C&pg=PA151 The Universal Book of Mathematics (2004) by David J. Darling, p. 151