"It saddens me that educated people don't even……" — Paul Halmos
"It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists."
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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 Educated Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Wit is educated insolence.
— Aristotle
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be…
— Frank Abagnale
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
— Chinua Achebe
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Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
— David Bailey
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and…
— Russell Baker
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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
— James A. Baldwin
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I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.
— John Banville
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I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college…
— Dave Barry
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and…
— Annie Besant
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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