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		iamcurious on May 10, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs Intuition sounds nice until you realize it means "there are things happening here which I cannot explain nor verify nor teach.".

mannykannot on May 10, 2015 [–]

Once you know and respect the difference between intuition and an explanation, it can be very helpful - but you can never trust in it working.

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