Harold Davenport famous quotes

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A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence.
-- Harold Davenport

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Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.
-- Harold Davenport

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One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best of all possible mathematics will be created out of physicists' attempts to describe nature.
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.
Numbers are the most certain things we have.
I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.
You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.
We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

Harold Davenport famous quotes

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