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The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
“The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.”
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“The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.”
“It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.”
“The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.”
“If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.”
“Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.”
“Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.”
“Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.”
“I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.”
“I do really like serio-comic movies that treat real difficulties in a real way.”
“In his personal life, Donald Trump shows that even when a family faces difficulties, the role of the father must remain strong - his children are a testament to the fact that a father who remains engaged can overcome many odds and set children on the right path.”
“Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.”
“When you come from younger teams, and you reach the main squad, there are always difficulties you have to deal with, like the intensity, the maturity, and the experience of the players.”