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We Poles are and will remain convinced Europeans. For us, Europe is a community of the diversity of nations. No mishmash.

Felix Klein

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.

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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

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Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending. . . no first beginning.

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The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.

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