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• Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are…
• [In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones,…
• Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of…
• Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla…
• The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.
• Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal.
• We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"
• Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like…
• God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
• How did he do it? He must be a genius!
• The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be…
• The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need.

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