Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

- Morris Kline

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

- Morris Kline

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

- Morris Kline

A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.

- Morris Kline

Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects,…

- Morris Kline

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.

- Morris Kline

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

- Morris Kline

The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.

- Morris Kline

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 p…

- Morris Kline