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I Think The Biggest Misconception About Mathematics Is That Everybody Has To Learn It. That Seems To Be A Complete Mistake. All The Time Worrying About Pushing The Children And Getting Them To Be Mathematically Literate And All That Stuff. It's Terribly Hard On The Kids. It's Also Hard On The Teachers. And I Think It's Totally Useless. To Me, Mathematics Is Like Playing The Violin. Some People Can Do It - Others Can't. If You Don't Have It, Then There's No Point In Pretending.

The Besicovitch Style Is Architectural. He Builds Out Of Simply Elements A Delicate And Complicated Architectural Structure, Usually With A Hierarchical Plan, And Then, When The Building Is Finished, The Completed Structure Leads By Simple Arguments To An Unexpected Conclusion. Every Besicovitch Proof Is A Work Of Art, As Carefully Constructed As A Bach Fugue.

The Only Way To Improve The Chances For Finding Winners Is To Keep All The Choices Open And Try Them All.

Most Of The Papers Which Are Submitted To The Physical Review Are Rejected, Not Because It Is Impossible To Understand Them, But Because It Is Possible. Those Which Are Impossible To Understand Are Usually Published.

Everything In My Life Was Luck. The Key To Having An Interesting Life Is To Always Say "yes" To Anything Crazy.