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Raymond Louis Wilder
(3 Nov 1896 - 7 Jul 1982)
American mathematician.
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Science Quotes by Raymond Louis Wilder (2 quotes)
Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of the content and state of present-day mathematics is hardly possible.
— Raymond Louis Wilder
In Introduction to the Foundations of Mathematics (1952), 265.
There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.
— Raymond Louis Wilder
In Introduction to the Foundations of Mathematics (1952), 175.
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) -- 
