"Mathematics is the science which uses easy words……" — Edward Kasner

"Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas."

— Edward Kasner

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11 Quotes by Edward Kasner

Edward Kasner has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.
The testament of science is so continually in a flux that the heresy of yesterday is the gospel of today…
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…
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…
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and…
. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own…
There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a…
Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders…

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Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some… — Kevin Bacon

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