“Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.” MindIgnoranceIdealsAbsolutesFolksPrivilegeCertaintyStatisticsFanaticsUnattainableUneducatedAbsolute Certainty Book:Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated Laymen Source: Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom; Lectures for Educated Laymen
“[The] humanization of mathematical teaching, the bringing of the matter and the spirit of mathematics to bear not merely upon certain fragmentary faculties of the mind, but upon the whole mind, that this is the greatest desideratum is. I assume, beyond dispute.” MindMatterWholeScienceSpiritCertainTeachingBearsMathematicsAssumingMathematicalFacultyDisputes Author:Cassius Jackson Keyser