Jacques Hadamard quotes
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“The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.”
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“The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.”
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“To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.”
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“Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.”
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“Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.”
-- Jacques HadamardSource : Jacques Hadamard (1954). “An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field”, p.124, Courier Corporation
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“Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?”
-- Jacques Hadamard
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“There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.”
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“What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.”
Source : A. W. F. Edwards (1984). “Likelihood”, p.180, CUP Archive
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“The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so”
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“To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.”
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