Top 33 Morris Kline Quotes
#1. predecessor of Isaac Newton at Cambridge University, maintained that irrational numbers have no meaning independent of geometric lengths.
Morris Kline
#2. 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.
Morris Kline
#3. You think some are bad or evil or whatnot, but somewhere along the way they were someone's baby, suckling the teat like anybody. Then something puts a volt in 'em and they ain't the same no more.
Alan Heathcock
#4. Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.
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#5. The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.
James Jeans
#6. A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.
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#7. 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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#8. The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.
Morris Kline
#9. Social media is changing the world, and we're all here whitnessing it.
Ian Somerhalder
#10. In order for the true energy of love to penetrate your soul, your soul must be as if you had just been born
Paulo Coelho
#11. 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.
Morris Kline
#12. Where, twisted round the barren oak,
The summer vine in beauty clung,
And summer winds the stillness broke,
The crystal icicle is hung.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#13. Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.
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#14. The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
#15. It's not okay, it's not all right. But if you just hold on, One more day, one more hour. It will be. It will be.
Jasinda Wilder
#16. When the body breaks down and you start to wrinkle, I think it's so bad,
Michael Jackson
#17. 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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#18. Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#19. 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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#20. A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.
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#21. Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.
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#22. Today's workers need to approach the workplace much like athletes preparing for the Olympics, with one difference. They have to prepare like someone who is training for the Olympics but doesn't know what sport they are going to enter,
Thomas L. Friedman
#23. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.
Heraclitus
#24. Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.
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#25. 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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#27. 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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#28. Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
Morris Kline
#29. 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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#31. There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible.
Freeman Dyson
#32. I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.
Chris Tucker
#33. If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, it's every bit as dogmatic.
Bill Ayers
