Top 5 Mark Kac Quotes
#1. Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines.
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#2. There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them.
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#3. It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem.
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#4. In recent years we have become much more preoccupied with streamlining and organizing our subject than with maintaining its overall vitality. If we are not careful, a great adventure of the mind will become yet another profession.
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#5. A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man.
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