“Obvious” is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
Obvious Quotes
One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd.
The great discoveries are usually obvious.
The obvious is better than obvious avoidance of it.
Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
To spell out the obvious is often to call it into question.
A mystic is a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the nonexistent
That’s the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along.
