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The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it. — Jacques Hadamard
A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new,… — Paul Halmos
A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book. — Peter Hammill
He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit. — Peter Hammill
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. — Richard Hamming
Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether say, an airplane would or would… — Richard Hamming
Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to… — Hermann Hankel
Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth. — George Harrison
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will. — Paul Harvey
If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong. — John Harvey-Jones
A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a… — Stephen Hawking
Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? — Stephen Hawking
To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency… — Unknown Author
Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one… — Joseph Heller
The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share… — Carl Gustav Hempel
Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. — William Ernest Henley
The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings. — Heraclitus
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. — Frank Herbert
I do not think that the radio waves I have discovered will have any practical application. — Heinrich Hertz
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. — David Hilbert

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