We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.

We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.

A problem is something you can do something about. If you can't do something about it, then it's not a problem, it's a predicament. That means it's something that must be coped with, endured.

Experience is of particulars only.

There is nothing more inspiring than having a mind unfold before you. Let people teach who have a calling. It is never just a job.

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, "What would the world be like if it were true?" The operationist asks, "What would we have to do to come to believe it?" For the pragmatist the question is, "What would we do if did believe it?"