When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But when he tries to extend his proposition to everything, though it is much more interesting,… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe.… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre:… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination or… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the fundamentalism of… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image