Abraham Kaplan Quotes
- Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
- Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak,…
- The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to…
- Experience is of particulars only.
- To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks,…
- We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good…
- Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.
- 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. That…