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.
Morris KlineMathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
Morris KlineUniversities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.
Morris KlineThe stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder that Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz erected in order to scale the heavens rests upon a continually shifting, unstable foundation.
Morris Kline