There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology.

If we have no idea why a statement is true, we can still prove it by induction.

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

Nature imitates mathematics.

How did he do it? He must be a genius!

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, "How did he do it? He must be a genius!"

Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... . He had an overpowering personality.