"If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression that mathematics consists in proving the most obvious things in the least obvious way."

-- George Polya

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“A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.”
“The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition.”
“What an amazing thing to feel known and loved, to feel understood, to walk through life with another person.”

Source : Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.43, Penguin
“Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.”

Source : William Fleming (1858). “Vocabulary of Philosophy Psychological, Ethical, Metaphysical by William Fleming”, p.410
“It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.”
“The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.”
“That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.”

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