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It is generally useless to carry out details without having seen the main connection, or having made a sort of plan. — George Polya

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort. — George Polya

My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it. — George Polya

The open secret of real success is to throw your whole personality into your problem. — George Polya

There is nothing to learn about reasoning and invention if the motive and purpose of the most conspicuous step remain incomprehensible. — George Polya

What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice. — George Polya

The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination. — George Polya

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. — George Polya

If you cannot solve the proposed problem try to solve first some related problem. — George Polya

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

If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it. — George Polya

The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea. — George Polya

John von Neumann was the only student I was ever afraid of. — George Polya

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion, more interesting than the inventions themselves. — George Polya

Analogy pervades all our thinking, — George Polya

A mathematics teacher is a midwife to ideas. — George Polya

If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it. — George Polya

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching. — George Polya

I am too good for philosophy and not good enough for physics. Mathematics is in between. — George Polya

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures. — George Polya

There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer. — George Polya

Mathematics is being lazy. Mathematics is letting the principles do the work for you so that you do not have to do the work for yourself — George Polya

Success in solving the problem depends on choosing the right aspect, on attacking the fortress from its accessible side. — George Polya

There exist a lot of questions that the fools can ask, and the intelligent cannot answer. — George Polya

Good problems and mushrooms of certain kinds have something in common; they grow in clusters. — George Polya

Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice. — George Polya

It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way. — George Polya

An idea which can be used once is a trick. If it can be used more than once it becomes a method. — George Polya

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible. — George Polya

In order to solve this differential equation you look at it till a solution occurs to you. — George Polya