"Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing it's stupid."
-Albert Einstein
-Albert Einstein
"It really seems true that a special sixth sense is needed to understand mathematics. The few who possess this sense fling themselves passionately into the subject; the rest stay as far away from it as possible or consider it a necessary evil."
-Wolfgang Krull
-Wolfgang Krull
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty."
-Bertrand Russell
-Bertrand Russell
"It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts."
- Paul Halmos
- Paul Halmos
I disagree with Adler, who wrote (in the New Yorker) that there is no point in being a mathematician unless you can be a great mathematician. That's nonsense. Mathematics is like a Gothic cathedral. If you can build a little part of it, it is there--forever-- in some sense. At least I have the illusion that it is so."
- Lipman Bers
- Lipman Bers