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Samuel T. Sanders
(17 Jan 1872 - 19 Mar 1970)
mathematician who was a professor at Louisiana State University. In 1926, he independently founded the National Mathematics Magazine to encourage high school teachers to join the Mathematics Association of America, which by the 1960s was transferred as the Association’s own second periodical.
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Science Quotes by Samuel T. Sanders (1 quote)
Given any domain of thought in which the fundamental objective is a knowledge that transcends mere induction or mere empiricism, it seems quite inevitable that its processes should be made to conform closely to the pattern of a system free of ambiguous terms, symbols, operations, deductions; a system whose implications and assumptions are unique and consistent; a system whose logic confounds not the necessary with the sufficient where these are distinct; a system whose materials are abstract elements interpretable as reality or unreality in any forms whatsoever provided only that these forms mirror a thought that is pure. To such a system is universally given the name MATHEMATICS.
— Samuel T. Sanders
In 'Mathematics', National Mathematics Magazine (Nov 1937), 12, No. 2, 62.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
