Greatest Progress Quotes by Edward Kasner

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• The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.
• Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.
• The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today and the…
• Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.
• When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is…
• Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.
• Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either…
• Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry…

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