Difficulty Quote by Zia Haider Rahman

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

— Rene Thom

“It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very high standards,…

— Herbert S. Gaskill

“We tend to see math and science as a steady state of facts rather than as the accumulated knowledge of linear traditions. As Korzybski…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“Somewhere out there is a theory that would explain my empirical observations, and this theory has yet to be discovered. Mathematics thrives on such…

— Henri Darmon

But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant upon which…

— Bertrand Russell

“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

— Hermann Weyl

Mathematics is, I believe, the chief source of the belief in eternal and exact truth, as well as a sensible intelligible world.

— Bertrand Russell

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

— John Stuart Mill

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge…

— Henri Poincare

Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

A number of aspects of mathematics are not much talked about in contemporary histories of mathematics. We have in mind business and commerce, war,…

— Eric Temple Bell