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

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

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

The heart of mathematics is its problems.

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.

The library is the mathematician's laboratory.

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

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.

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

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

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

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

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.

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

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

The computer is important, but not to mathematics.

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