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Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is so inconspicuous. The…
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The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application…
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The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and…
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The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and…
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Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is…
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When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.
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Where should I start? Start from the statement of the problem. ... What can I do? Visualize the problem as a whole…
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If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see…
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A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem…
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Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.
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The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new…
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If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the…
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Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize
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Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.
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Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in…
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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.
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So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take…
— Tony Kushner
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Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well.
— Leo Burnett
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From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person…
— Ian Mcewan
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When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given…
— Bertolt Brecht
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But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were…
— Blake Nelson
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It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we…
— Mohsin Hamid
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even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people…
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