Christopher Zeeman quotes
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“Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.”
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“Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general and specific statements-can be deduced from the starting assumptions. It is, perhaps, the purest and most rigorous of intellectual activities, and is often thought of as queen of the sciences.”
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“The scientist has to take 95 per cent of his subject on trust. He has to because he can't possibly do all the experiments, therefore he has to take on trust the experiments all his colleagues and predecessors have done. Whereas a mathematician doesn't have to take anything on trust. Any theorem that's proved, he doesn't believe it, really, until he goes through the proof himself, and therefore he knows his whole subject from scratch. He's absolutely 100 per cent certain of it. And that gives him an extraordinary conviction of certainty, and an arrogance that scientists don't have.”
-- Christopher Zeeman
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“Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.”
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“Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.”
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Source : "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.
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“Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.”
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“The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.”
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