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To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize…
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What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God…
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[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as…
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Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and…
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...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of…
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The computer is important, but not to mathematics.
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It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more…
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The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.
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The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to…
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A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to…
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Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.
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The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method,…
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Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's…
— Malcolm X
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The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as…
— Primo Levi
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Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.
— Dizzy Gillespie
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I read once that the true mark of a pro — at anything — is that he understands, loves, and is good…
— Paul Halmos
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A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.
— Frederick The Great
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No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as…
— John Douillard
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Better a man honor his profession than be honored by it.
— Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
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Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.…
— Aldous Huxley
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When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and…
— Joseph Lancaster
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We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due…
— Kiefer Sutherland
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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
— George Bernard Shaw
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