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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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Libraries are not made, they grow.
— Augustine Birrell
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more…
— Dan Buettner
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
— Winston Churchill
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Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
— James A. Garfield
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I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get…
— Helena Rutherfurd Ely
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Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
— Josh Billings
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It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or…
— William Hazlitt
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Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce…
— Walter Russell
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Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise…
— Isaac Asimov
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