"Look around when you have got your first……" — George Polya
"Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters."
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47 Quotes by George Polya
George Polya has 47 quotes on this site.
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Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is so…
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The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no…
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The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the…
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The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit…
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Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for…
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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…
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If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try…
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A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem.…
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The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and…
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If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may…
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In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the…
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More Clusters Quotes
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one of 29 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never…
— Mark Twain
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On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards…
— Charles Dickens
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Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the…
— Dogen
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Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.
— Larry McMurtry
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I liked to drive by the clusters around the county and think about the women I placed there.
— Gary Ridgway
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Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in…
— Democritus
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A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well…
— Alfred Leslie Rowse
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
— May Sarton
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Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember…
— Charles Dickens
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And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin…
— Steven Millhauser
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The tradition I was born into was essentially nomadic, a herdsmen tradition, following animals across the earth. The bookshops are…
— Larry McMurtry
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If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another -…
— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
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