There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
“We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.” — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself. — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem, it's a predicament.… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
