"In no other branch of mathematics is it……" — Martin Gardner

"In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory."

28 Quotes by Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would…
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify…
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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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class… — Alfred Austin
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of… — Joseph Addison
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but… — William Ellery Channing
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If… — Vernon Howard
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer. — Oswald Chambers
When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder... — John Kenneth Galbraith
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my… — John Tyler
In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind. — Hannah More
Soul-the spiritual principle, the creative spark of God-cannot work if you panic. Anxiety shuts down the creative centers. When you… — Harold Klemp
England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years.... Such is the fate… — Adolf Hitler
The greatest blunder I have seen that almost everyone makes is to just speak their mind. It doesn't make any… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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"In no other branch of mathematics is it……" — Martin Gardner

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