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Paul Halmos quotes: A smooth lecture ... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant.

A smooth lecture ... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant.

Paul Halmos quotes: You are allowed to lie a little, but you must never mislead.

You are allowed to lie a little, but you must never mislead.

Paul Halmos quotes: To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

Paul Halmos quotes: The heart of mathematics is its problems.

The heart of mathematics is its problems.

Paul Halmos quotes: When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

When a student comes and asks, "Should I become a mathematician?" the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

Paul Halmos quotes: The library is the mathematician's laboratory.

The library is the mathematician's laboratory.

Paul Halmos quotes: The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites.

The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites.

Paul Halmos quotes: It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.

Paul Halmos quotes: Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.

Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.

Paul Halmos quotes: Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.

Paul Halmos quotes: It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.

It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.

Paul Halmos quotes: The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

Paul Halmos quotes: I read once that the true mark of a pro - at anything - is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.

I read once that the true mark of a pro - at anything - is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.

Paul Halmos quotes: A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, butsurely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reasonbetter.

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but
surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason
better.

Paul Halmos quotes: The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

Paul Halmos quotes: The computer is important, but not to mathematics.

The computer is important, but not to mathematics.

Paul Halmos quotes: Feller was an ebullient man, who would rather be wrong than undecided.

Feller was an ebullient man, who would rather be wrong than undecided.