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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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The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem.
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Open Secret boasts a nifty plot and, in Coroner Fortin, a fascinating protagonist who will likely be around for a long time.…
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Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which…
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The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it.…
— William Howard Taft
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It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.
— Julius Streicher
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Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle…
— George Steiner
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I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a…
— Arthur Golden
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Art like life is an open secret.
— Lawrence Durrell
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Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it…
— Rumi
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The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the…
— Albert Einstein
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It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that…
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