David Blackwell Quotes

• Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been... I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.

  David Blackwell

  Inspirational, Work, Understanding

  Interview with Donald J. Albers, published in Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson "Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews", 1985.

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• I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.

  David Blackwell

  Research, Not Interested, Areas

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