"When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles……" — Steven Strogatz
"When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character."
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9 Quotes by Steven Strogatz
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When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
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The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising…
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In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not…
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Change is most sluggish at the extremes precisely because the derivative is zero there.
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I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight…
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Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but…
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Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word…
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One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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