Stephen Cole Kleene Quotes & Sayings

“As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know.”

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

“I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.”

“Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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