“There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.”
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Famous George Polya Quotes
“If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.”
“A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.”
Source: How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method
“Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.”
Source: Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving
“The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.”
Source: How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method