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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.

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.

Freeman Dyson
People, Violin, Mathematics
"Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference is something you can't really describe - you can only recognize. You hear somebody playing the violin, and it was Fritz Kreisler or it was somebody else, and you can tell the difference. It is so in almost every art. We just don't understand why it is that there are just a few people who are just completely off the scale and the rest of them are just mediocre. And we don't know why. But I say it's certainly true of mathematics.

Freeman Dyson
Art, People, Mathematics
Source: www.businessinsider.com

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

Freeman Dyson
Art, Mathematics
"Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, www.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

Freeman Dyson
Mistake, Thinking, Mathematics
"Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, uk.businessinsider.com. January 3, 2018.

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