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> [Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-klein/mathematics-in-general-is-fundamentally-the-science-of-self-evident/)

[Felix Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-klein/)

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## More by Felix Klein

> [Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-klein/every-one-who-understands-the-subject-will-agree-that-even-the-basis/)

[Felix Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-klein/)

> [It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-klein/it-is-well-known-that-the-central-problem-of-the-whole-of-modern/)

[Felix Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-klein/)

> [Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-klein/mathematics-in-general-is-fundamentally-the-science-of-self-evident/)

[Felix Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-klein/)

> [The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-klein/the-developing-science-departs-at-the-same-time-more-and-more-from/)

[Felix Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-klein/)

> [The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-klein/the-teacher-manages-to-get-along-still-with-the-cumbersome-algebraic/)

[Felix Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-klein/)

> [Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-klein/everyone-knows-what-a-curve-is-until-he-has-studied-enough/)

[Felix Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-klein/)

> [Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-klein/thus-in-a-sense-mathematics-has-been-most-advanced-by-those-who/)

[Felix Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-klein/)

> [The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-klein/the-presentation-of-mathematics-in-schools-should-be-psychological/)

[Felix Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-klein/)

> [Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-klein/regarding-the-fundamental-investigations-of-mathematics-there-is-no/)

[Felix Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-klein/)

> [Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-klein/projective-geometry-has-opened-up-for-us-with-the-greatest-facility/)

[Felix Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-klein/)

> [The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-klein/the-greatest-mathematicians-as-archimedes-newton-and-gauss-always/)

[Felix Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-klein/)

> [Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/felix-klein/among-mathematicians-in-general-three-main-categories-may-be/)

[Felix Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/felix-klein/)

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