Kasner, E. and J. Newman
Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.
Mathematics and the Imagination, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.
Kasner, E. and J. Newman
[W]e have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.
Mathematics and the Imagination, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.
Kasner, E. and J. Newman
Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.
Mathematics and the Imagination, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940.
Karlin, Samuel (1923 - )
The purpose of
models is not to fit
the data but to
sharpen the
questions.
11th R. A. Fisher
Memorial Lecture,
Royal Society, 20
April 1983.
Kaplansky, Irving
We [he and Halmos]
share a philosophy
about linear
algebra: we think
basis-free, we write
basis-free, but when
the chips are down
we close the office
door and compute
with matrices like
fury.
Paul Halmos:
Celebrating 50 Years
of Mathematics.
Kant, Emmanual (1724 - 1804)
All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Quoted in Hilbert's Foundations of Geometry.
Kaplan, Abraham
Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naivete of the mathematician himself.
Sociology Learns the Language of Mathematics.
Kant, Emmanual (1724 - 1804)
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience.
The Mathematical Intelligencer, v. 13, no. 1, Winter 1991.
Karl Weierstrass
It is true that a
mathematician, who
is not somewhat of a
poet,
will never be a
perfect
mathematician.