"One cannot guess the real difficulties of a problem before having solved it."

--

Source : Carl Ludwig Siegel (2016). “Transcendental Numbers. (AM-16)”, p.84, Princeton University Press

Carl Ludwig Siegel

#Real Quotes #Problem Quotes #Difficulty Quotes

“Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense.”
“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”
“When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.”
“I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.”
“I'm not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body.”
“Whether or not he came to believe it - so many people, when they have a mission, come to believe something in a way that may have started out as a slogan. You know, L. Ron Hubbard, not to make a random comparison, started Scientology as a scam.”
“Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.”
“Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.”

Source : "Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins" by Dirk Johnson, www.nytimes.com. February 20, 2011.

You may also like:

Andre Weil
Mathematician
Atle Selberg
Mathematician
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Mathematician
Enrico Bombieri
Mathematician
Max Born
Physicist
Pierre Deligne
Mathematician
Serge Lang
Mathematician
Edmund Landau
Mathematician
Peter Sarnak
Mathematician