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Science Would Be Ruined If (like Sports) It Were To Put Competition Above Everything Else, And If It Were To Clarify The Rules Of Competition By Withdrawing Entirely Into Narrowly Defined Specialties. The Rare Scholars Who Are Nomads-by-choice Are Essential To The Intellectual Welfare Of The Settled Disciplines.

If You Assume Continuity, You Can Open The Well-stocked Mathematical Toolkit Of Continuous Functions And Differential Equations, The Saws And Hammers Of Engineering And Physics For The Past Two Centuries (and The Foreseeable Future).

I've Been A Professor Of Mathematics At Harvard And At Yale. At Yale For A Long Time. But I'm Not A Mathematician Only. I'm A Professor Of Physics, Of Economics, A Long List. Each Element Of This List Is Normal. The Combination Of These Elements Is Very Rare At Best.

Bottomless Wonders Spring From Simple Rules, Which Are Repeated Without End.

I Had Many Books And I Had Dreams Of All Kinds. Dreams In Which Were In A Certain Sense, How To Say, Easy To Make Because The Near Future Was Always Extremely Threatening.