Morris Kline Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.

All mathematical proofs must be deductive. Each proof is a chain of deductive arguments, each of which has its premises and conclusion.

predecessor of Isaac Newton at Cambridge University, maintained that irrational numbers have no meaning independent of geometric lengths.

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.