Top 24 Frege Quotes
#1. Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.
Bertrand Russell
#2. That's the rankest psychologism, and was conclusively revealed as hogwash by Gottlob Frege in the 1890s!
Sheldon Cooper
#3. Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.
Gottlob Frege
#4. A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.
Gottlob Frege
#5. The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends or begins. You just have to bluff and move forward.
Dan Scanlon
#6. Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
#7. There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.
Gottlob Frege
#8. They were also deeply desired, and no woman without a chaperone was safe from male advances. They were prudish and reluctant to discuss sex, but they had a lot of it and reported great satisfaction.
Lily King
#9. What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?
Gottlob Frege
#10. The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.
Gottlob Frege
#11. God wants you to be truthful and humble to yourself and others. He made you good and industrious, but you can't benefit from it if you always stumble on pride.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#12. One can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.
Gottlob Frege
#13. If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
E.B. White
#14. Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.' I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.
Cheryl Mendelson
#15. Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
Thomas Aquinas
#16. The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
Pat Toomey
#17. I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.
Constance Wu
#18. Having visual impressions is, of course, necessary for seeing things, but it is not sufficient. What must be added is not anything sensible. And it is precisely this that unlocks the outer world for us; for without this non-sensible something, each of us would remain locked up in his inner world.
Gottlob Frege
#20. I can affect change by transforming the only thing that I ever had control over in the first place and that is myself.
Deepak Chopra
#21. They were surrounded by people, seemingly enjoying the company, but they kept stealing glances at each other as if everything else were just a distraction. It
Sonali Dev
#22. I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.
Gottlob Frege
#23. A scientist can hardly encounter anything more desirable than, just as a work is completed, to have its foundation give way.
Gottlob Frege
