"In many cases a dull proof can be……" — Martin Gardner
"In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance."
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28 Quotes by Martin Gardner
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- If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would…
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- If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology…
- Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid…
- All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics.
- Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter,…
- Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The…
- The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what…
- If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is…
- There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and…
- The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to…
- It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on…
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