Top 18 Morris Kline Quotes

#1. There is no rigorous definition of rigor.

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#2. The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical ... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.

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#3. Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

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#4. In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.

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#5. Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.

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#6. Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

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#7. Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

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#8. A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

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#9. The feeling that one must be an authority in a subject to say anything about it is unfounded. We are all laymen outside the field of our own specialty,

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#10. Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.

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#11. Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

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#12. A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

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#13. All mathematical proofs must be deductive. Each proof is a chain of deductive arguments, each of which has its premises and conclusion.

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#14. The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.

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#15. predecessor of Isaac Newton at Cambridge University, maintained that irrational numbers have no meaning independent of geometric lengths.

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#16. On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to the real world. To students, mathematics appears to deal almost entirely with things whlch are of no concern at all to man.

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

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#18. A good expository paper will benefit far more people than most research papers. A good text is worth a thousand of the usual trifles that appear in research journals.

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