Baffled Quote by Morris Kline

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...

— Alan Turing

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

— Plato

You can teach people specific reasoning, such as how to fly a kite or build a wheel. General reasoning cannot be imparted upon people,…

— Jacque Fresco

Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.

— Joseph Warren

Mathematics is the art of explanation. If you deny students the opportunity to engage in this activity-- to pose their own problems, to make…

— Paul Lockhart

“Mathematicians need to understand a problem only for themselves; math teachers need both to know the math and to know how 30 different minds…

— Elizabeth Green

The completion of a rigorous course in mathematics - it is not even necessary that the student does well in such a course -…

— Keith Devlin

Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least, get across…

— Martin Gardner

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

— Richard P. Feynman

Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

— Ralph P. Boas, Jr

Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue…

— Anya Kamenetz

For most problems found in mathematics textbooks, mathematical reasoning is quite useful. But how often do people find textbook problems in real life? At…

— Lynn Steen