Kurt Godel Quotes

#1. A consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself.

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#2. Nothing new had been done in Logic since Aristotle!

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#3. I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.

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#4. Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principle task as that of beating religion out of men's heads ... We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view.

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#5. The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.

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#6. The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

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#7. Said to physicist John Bahcall. I don't believe in natural science.

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#8. But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.

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#9. I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

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#10. I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife

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#11. I don't believe in natural science.

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#12. Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

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#13. All generalisations - perhaps except this one - are false.

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#14. All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.

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#15. The axiomatic method is very powerful

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#16. The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision.

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