Felix Klein Quotes

"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
- Felix Klein
(Related: Mathematics)

"The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches."
- Felix Klein
(Related: Science, Time, Sacrifice, Purpose, Unity)

"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure."
- Felix Klein
(Related: Mathematicians, Measure, Theory, United)