Stefan Banach quotes
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“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.”
-- Stefan BanachSource : "Banach Spaces and Their Applications in Analysis: Proceedings of the International Conference at Miami University, May 22-27, 2006, in Honor of Nigel Kalton's 60th Birthday" by Beata Randrianantoanina, Narcisse Randrianantoanina, Walter de Gruyter, (p. 5), 2007.
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“Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.”
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“Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies.”
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“I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids.”
-- Stefan Banach
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“An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on”
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“The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it”
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“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”
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“We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.”
Source : APA Address, 1998.
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“A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.”
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