A Quote by Plato

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Plato

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Capable Ever Hardly Known Mathematician Reasoning

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Plato
Greek - Philosopher
427 BC - 347 BC

The result of the mathematician's creative work is demonstrative reasoning, a proof; but the proof is discovered by plausible reasoning, by guessing.

George Polya

The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. That his recklessness does not lead him into a morass of contradictions is a miracle in itself: certainly it is hard to believe that our reasoning power was brought, by Darwin's process of natural selection, to the perfection which it seems to possess.

Eugene Wigner

An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the best of circumstances, the relationship is clear enough so that the mathematician can submit his or her reasoning to an informal checklist, passing from step to step with the easy confidence the steps are small enough so that he cannot be embarrassed nor she tripped up.

David Berlinski

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

Samuel Richardson

It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs.

Aristotle

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

J. C. Ryle

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

Abraham Kaplan

I think you can fan the flames, but I think in the same way that a mathematician is a mathematician - He's not taught to be a mathematician. He either has a feeling for equations and an understanding and delight in it, not only in the purity of it, but in its beauty as well.

John Hurt

Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!

Kate Moss

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.

Robert Palmer

We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves

Cassandra Clare

Humans have more moral responsibility perhaps, because they are capable of reasoning.

Richard Dawkins

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?

Jean Piaget

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.