Herbert Robbins Quote

The notion that the intellect can create meaningful postulational systems at its whim is a deceptive half-truth. Only under the discipline of responsibility to the organic whole, only guided by intrinsic necessity, can the free mind achieve results of scientific value.


What Is Mathematics? (p. xvii), Oxford University Press, Inc. 1941


The notion that the intellect can create meaningful postulational systems at its whim is a deceptive half-truth. Only under the discipline of...

The notion that the intellect can create meaningful postulational systems at its whim is a deceptive half-truth. Only under the discipline of...

The notion that the intellect can create meaningful postulational systems at its whim is a deceptive half-truth. Only under the discipline of...

The notion that the intellect can create meaningful postulational systems at its whim is a deceptive half-truth. Only under the discipline of...