"A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks."

-- Gian-Carlo Rota

#Hard Work Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Frustration Quotes

“I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life.”
“It's not about being tough but to accept your weaknesses and work to get stronger day by day.”
“We are our own gods and our own demons.”
“I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.”
“I'm having a good time. Managing my things takes a lot of time.”
“It's so easy to say "evil Nazi monsters," but as soon as we do that, we take away the fact that it was individuals committing individual acts of murder. They had children, and what does that do? As soon as you generalize, they become monsters. It doesn't allow you to understand it in any kind of sophisticated way.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.”
“An artist cannot do anything slovenly.”

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