A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.
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One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.
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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
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Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
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Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
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The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
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The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.
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No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
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If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.
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I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.
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It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.
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I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.
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Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit.
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It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.
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Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
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