Edward Kasner Inspirational Quotes (6)

Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer.

The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated.

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are made of things and circumstances of the world he [or she] live in.

. . . we 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.