Abraham Kaplan Quotes

We are forever asking Nature whether it has stopped beating its wife.

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.

Experience is of particulars only.

The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.

We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization.