Henri Lebesgue Quotes

• The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.

  Henri Lebesgue

  Education, Teaching, Math

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• ... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice among every thing that is exact, one would hardly think of many questions, and certain notions ... would escape us completely.

  Henri Lebesgue

  Math, Thinking, Choices

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• In my opinion a mathematician, in so far as he is a mathematician, need not preoccupy himself with philosophy-an opinion, moreover, which has been expressed by many philosophers.

  Henri Lebesgue

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Math

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• Mathematicians have never been in full agreement on their science, though it is said to be the science of self-evident verities -- absolute, indisputable and definitive. They have always been in controversy over developing aspects of mathematics, and they have always considered their own age to be in a period of crisis.

  Henri Lebesgue

  Self, Agreement, Age

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