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. Humans are animals, but aren't we supposed to be civilized animals?

Justine Monikue

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

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

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#9. Some of its magic, some its tragic, but I've had a good life along the
way.

Jimmy Buffett

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

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

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

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

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#14. The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed.

Richard Bach

#15. Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.

Napoleon Hill

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

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#17. My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.

Salma Hayek

#18. I don't have to put out another rap record. I can do it at my casual pace.

Ice-T

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

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

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#21. The axiomatic method is very powerful

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#22. I don't have anything against Jimmy Fallon. I love Jimmy Fallon. He's my dude.

Tracy Morgan

#23. I shovel out the money, and God shovels it back - but God has a bigger shovel. - R. G. LeTourneau

Randy Alcorn

#24. To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#25. 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

#26. When the coffee had finished brewing, he took the pot out from under, poured the entire sugar bowl into it, and followed that up with as much of the half-and-half as he could fit in. Then he took a test sip.

J.R. Ward

#27. Bring the past, but only if you can build from it.

Dominico Scarlatti

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

Kurt Godel