George Polya Quotes
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
Quotes to Explore
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
Kat Dahlia
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Barbara Walters
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I'm focused on being the best, making history.
Canelo Alvarez
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I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'
Kate Winslet
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
Umberto Eco
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On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'
Ben Affleck
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If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.
F. LaGard Smith
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The more I travel around the world, the more I see people want the same thing - to be happy. We wouldn't be in a monetary system if we didn't have to work, so if my music can contribute to happiness, then that's my main responsibility.
Jason Mraz
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It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.
Anthony Trollope
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
Walther Bothe
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A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.
Bent Larsen