Israel Nathan Herstein quotes

“Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may be more than half done.”
-- Israel Nathan Herstein

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“The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver.”
-- Israel Nathan Herstein

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“Its sort of my job to feel good.”

“My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.”

“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”

“I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.”

“Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.”

“Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.”

“Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”

“The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

“Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.”

“The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.”

Source : Song: Princess Olivia