"I read once that the true mark of……" — Paul Halmos
"I read once that the true mark of a pro — at anything — is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession."
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26 Quotes by Paul Halmos
Paul Halmos has 26 quotes on this site.
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To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability…
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What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch…
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[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call…
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Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the…
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...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every…
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The computer is important, but not to mathematics.
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It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems…
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The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.
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The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the…
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A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I…
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Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.
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The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or…
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More Drudgery Quotes
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow…
— Charles Babbage
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Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in…
— Unknown Author
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery…
— Charles Lamb
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The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said,…
— Betty Friedan
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To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union…
— Alan Watts
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I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject…
— Berenice Abbott
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First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it.…
— B. C. Forbes
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Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining…
— Unknown Author
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While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden…
— E. Stanley Jones
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Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in…
— Max Ehrmann
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In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all…
— Seneca the Younger
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