Felix Klein Quotes

#1. We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.

Carine Roitfeld

#2. Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

Cathleen Schine

#3. I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.

Felix Klein

#5. The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

Felix Klein

#6. Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.

Felix Klein

#7. The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus, although the eighteenth century shyness toward it had long lost all point.

Felix Klein

#8. Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

Felix Klein

#9. There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

Felix Klein

#11. Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.

Felix Klein

#12. Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

Felix Klein

#13. The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

Felix Klein

#14. Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

Bai Juyi

#15. But what bothers me is that I only accidentally noticed them. What else have I missed? How many times in my life have I been, so to speak, on the back porch, not the front porch? What would have been said to me that I failed to hear? What love might there have been that I didn't feel?

Lucia Berlin

#16. My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good material conditions, a high level of culture, much freedom and friendship. And it won't come today or tomorrow. It's a long and winding road

Marek Edelman

#17. Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to those who have learned at least the elements of the differential and integral calculus, as well as analytical geometry.

Felix Klein

#18. Wales: not ALWAYS raining

Jasper Fforde

#19. It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Felix Klein