Top 24 Kleene Quotes
#1. The first principle of monotheist religions is 'God exists. What does He want from me?' The first principle of Buddhism is 'Suffering exists. How do I escape it?
Yuval Noah Harari
#3. Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#4. You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen.
Clint Eastwood
#5. As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#6. And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#7. Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in your head, 'don't get too famous.' If you think you're really famous and think you're really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. That's about as earthbound as it's going to get.
Lionel Richie
#8. For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#9. It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#11. Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#12. Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#13. I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#14. I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#15. I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#16. There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives.
Cornel West
#17. When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#19. I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#20. Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.
Mike Huckabee
#22. I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#23. The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#24. I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.
Stephen Cole Kleene
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