Cassius Jackson Keyser Quotes
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Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.
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If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has…
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[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the…
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The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain unaffected were it…
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Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.
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Mathematics is, in many ways, the most precious response that the human spirit has made to the call of the infinite.
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