'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.
It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
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