Godel's Quotes

#1. But you can't prove God exists. And isn't that what all science is ultimately about? Proving theories about the universe?"
"Provability is not truth, Caro. Godel's incompleteness theorem tells us that, if we didn't already know it intuitively, which we do.

Anna Jarzab

#2. Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time ... The subject of logic has certainly completely changed its nature and possibilities with Godel's achievement.

John Von Neumann

#3. Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ...

Thomas Pynchon

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

Kurt Godel

#5. What do you know?" I wonder, pulling Daisy's sweaty hair out of her face. Ryke gives me a solid glare. "You masturbate too much.

Krista Ritchie

#6. Racial pride and self-dignity were emphasized in my family and community.

Rosa Parks

#7. The axiomatic method is very powerful

Kurt Godel

#8. Hyacinth took out a bottle of rum, and Phaedra raised her eyebrows, a reflex she'd acquired upon seeing her father and mother under its influence, their eyes and mouths turned wilder, as if a cork at the edges of their personalities had come unscrewed.

Naomi Jackson

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

Kurt Godel

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

Kurt Godel

#11. I've been in many relationships in my life and learned a lot from them, good and bad.

Brody Jenner

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

Kurt Godel

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

Kurt Godel

#14. Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.

Coventry Patmore

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

Kurt Godel

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

Kurt Godel

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

Kurt Godel

#18. Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up.

Thomas Wolfe

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

Kurt Godel

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

Kurt Godel

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

Kurt Godel

#22. 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.

Kurt Godel

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

Kurt Godel

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

Kurt Godel

#25. 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.

Kurt Godel

#26. Like most religious mathematicians from Pythagoras to Godel, Bolzano believes that math is the Language of God and that profound metaphysical truths can be derived and proved mathematically.

David Foster Wallace

#27. I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.

Jim Butcher