Christopher Zeeman famous quotes

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.
-- Christopher Zeeman

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Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general and specific statements-can be deduced from the starting assumptions. It is, perhaps, the purest and most rigorous of intellectual activities, and is often thought of as queen of the sciences.
-- Christopher Zeeman

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The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore he has to take on trust the experiments all his colleagues and predecessors have done. Whereas a mathematician doesn't have to take anything on trust. Any theorem that's proved, he doesn't believe it, really, until he goes through the proof himself, and therefore he knows his whole subject from scratch. He's absolutely 100 per cent certain of it. And that gives him an extraordinary conviction of certainty, and an arrogance that scientists don't have.
-- Christopher Zeeman

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I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.

Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.

No I or individual is better than the team. I've scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I've ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery. And I'm kind of the end product of a collection of a really good vibe, and feeling, and creativity on the field.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.