"The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics."

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Source : P.R. Halmos, Paul Richard Halmos (1982). “A Hilbert Space Problem Book”, p.7, Springer Science & Business Media

Paul Halmos

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“God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully.”
“Did you forget? I'm a heartless wretch!”
“Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them”
“Of Richard M. Nixon: A foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad.”
“Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?”
“I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.”
“Before computers were everywhere I used record books, the old-fashioned way. I loved to cram, and I still love to cram, anything I write with extra facts, stuff I picked up. At the same time, especially in this day and age, you've got to make it sound like, or read like, you've not just been Googling because that's not fair, that's not right!”
“It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.”

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