User:Hottscubbard

Favorite Quotes:

Carl Friedrich Gauss

"There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science."

Hammersley

"People do acquire a little brief authority by equipping themselves with jargon: they can pontificate and air a superficial expertise. But what we should ask of educated mathematicians is not what they can speechify about, nor even what they know about the existing corpus of mathematical knowledge, but rather what can they now do with their learning and whether they can actually solve mathematical problems arising in practice. In short, we look for deeds, not words."

Thomas Mann

"A writer [mathematician] is a person for whom writing [mathematics] is more difficult than it is for other people." [Adapted for my purposes!]

Johnann von Neumann

"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."