Mark Kac - Future Quotes

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In the summer of 1930 my academic future, however, was not uppermost in my mind. I had been stricken by an acute attack of a disease which at regular intervals afflicts all mathematicians and, for that matter, all scientists: I became obsessed by a problem.

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When one is young, and seventeen is very young, one lives in the present. The future, even the near future, is cloaked in unreality.

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