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Alexandre Grothendieck
“It is in this gesture of "going beyond," to be something in oneself rather than the pawn of a consensus, the refusal to stay within a rigid circle that others have drawn around one-it is in this solitary act that one finds true creativity. All others things follow as a matter of course.”
Alexander Grothendieck

Alexandre Grothendieck
“And every science, when we understand it not as an instrument of power and domination but as an adventure in knowledge pursued by our species across the ages, is nothing but this harmony, more or less vast, more or less rich from one epoch to another, which unfurls over the course of generations and centuries, by the delicate counterpoint of all the themes appearing in turn, as if summoned from the void.”
Alexandre Grothendieck, Récoltes et semailles: Réflexions et témoignage sur un passé de mathématicien.

Robert Greene
“Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like. —Anton Chekhov”
Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature

Alexandre Grothendieck
“One should never try to prove anything that is not almost obvious.”
Alexander Grothendieck

Alexandre Grothendieck
“In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still, from the perspective of thirty or thirty-five years, I can state that their imprint upon the mathematics of our time has not been very profound. They've all done things, often beautiful things, in a context that was already set out before them, which they had no inclination to disturb. Without being aware of it, they've remained prisoners of those invisible and despotic circles which delimit the universe of a certain milieu in a given era. To have broken these bounds they would have had to rediscover in themselves that capability which was their birthright, as it was mine: the capacity to be alone.”
Alexander Grothendieck

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