Capable Quote by Abraham Kaplan Download Open image “Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.” — Abraham Kaplan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capable Coping Mathematical Mathematician Mathematics Vets
“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,… — Andrew Hodges Copy Share Image
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes".” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
To not know math is a severe limitation to understanding the world. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician. — Karl Weierstrass 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
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
In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men. — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
When you lived it for years and years and years and seen different characters just get pummeled and squashed because 'I said so,' it… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it… — Theodore Guerin Copy Share Image
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be… — Michael Light Copy Share Image