“This is what it means to do mathematics. To make a discovery (by whatever means, including playing around with physical models like paper, string, and rubber bands), and then to explain it in the simplest and most elegant way possible.… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he means what WE call mathematics. Likewise, I think, for the sciences. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
