The ideal of thought is rigor; mathematics is the name that usage employs to designate, not attainment of the ideal, for it cannot be attained, but its devoted pursuit and close approximation.


The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking: Essays and Addresses, The Human Significance of Mathematics (p. 50), Columbia University Press. 1916

Cassius Jackson Keyser Quotes

The ideal of thought is rigor; mathematics is the name that usage employs to designate, not attainment of the ideal, for it cannot be attained, but...

The ideal of thought is rigor; mathematics is the name that usage employs to designate, not attainment of the ideal, for it cannot be attained, but...

The ideal of thought is rigor; mathematics is the name that usage employs to designate, not attainment of the ideal, for it cannot be attained, but...

The ideal of thought is rigor; mathematics is the name that usage employs to designate, not attainment of the ideal, for it cannot be attained, but...