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

- Edward Kasner

Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either imagination…

- Edward Kasner

There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: e^(i pi) + 1 = 0..…

- Edward Kasner

. . . 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 …

- Edward Kasner

When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But when he tries to…

- Edward Kasner

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

- Edward Kasner

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 …

- Edward Kasner

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

- Edward Kasner

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

- Edward Kasner