Stephen Cole Kleene Quotes

• I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Able

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• I think Veblen had an interest in logic.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Thinking, Logic, Interest

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• When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Philosophy, Years, Listening

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• In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Fall, Agriculture, Maine

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• I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Journey, Europe, Ideas

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• Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Mathematical Logic, Wisconsin, Undergraduate

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• I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

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  Book, Two, Surfing

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• I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Splits, Mathematics

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• I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Thinking, Years, Europe

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• The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Jobs, Wisconsin, Firsts

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• I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

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  Fall, Half Time, Princeton

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• It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Years, Church

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• I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Thinking, Vision, Remember

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