"Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it……" — Morris Kline

"Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths."

— Morris Kline

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13 Quotes by Morris Kline

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[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on…
Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for…
On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any,…
The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity,…
Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.
A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.
The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even…
A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.
The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution…
There is no rigorous definition of rigor.

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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