One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

It's my fault for not having revealed it earlier, but I hadn't given it much importance. I didn't want to say that I had another injury as well as [thigh problem]. I thought that by the time I got back from the holidays everything would be in good condition but it hurts and now I have to pay it more attention than I did back then.

Everything we've done has been toward keeping the team in Pittsburgh. That's been a number one priority. If we had wanted to move the team, the easy thing to do would have been to play out the lease and then start shopping the team around.

It depends on what measure of size you're looking at. Is it payroll? Is it employment? Is it industrial output?