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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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Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I…
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Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one's inwardness, for better or worse. As I teach I project the condition of…
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If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject.…
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Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the…
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Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the…
— Wilfred Owen
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To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then…
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This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or…
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Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday…
— John Tenniel
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It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.
— Paul Halmos
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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age,…
— Anne Tyler
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