"Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a clichÃ© ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork."

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Source : "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.

Paul Halmos

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“A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.”
“I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.”
“Holding anxiety as your own enemy, and that it has to go down, diminish it, go away and not happen here is a kind of self-invalidating, interiorly focused process that would get you even more entangled with these processes. Instead, what we're going to need to learn to do is to allow your history to bring into the present thoughts and feelings and memories, and to sort of hold them mindfully and self-compassionately, and then focus on what you do and bring them along for that journey.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.”
“Harmony is something we must have with others, but it must start inside us first.”
“If only I had the Theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.”
“Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some.”

Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“If we’re born to inquire, then why must it be taught?”

Source : Warren Berger (2014). “A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas”, p.60, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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