Quotes About Georg Cantor

#1. No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us.

{Expressing the importance of Georg Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.}

David Hilbert

#2. The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized, a form of the soul's quest for God. Whether or not the goal is ever reached, an awareness of the process brings enlightenment.

Rudy Rucker

#3. To ask the right question is harder than to answer it.

Georg Cantor

#4. My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.

Georg Cantor

#5. I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

Ben Rector

#6. Some infinites are bigger than other infinites.

Georg Cantor

#7. The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

Georg Cantor

#8. The essence of mathematics is in its freedom.

Georg Cantor

#9. Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.

Georg Cantor

#10. In Mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

Georg Cantor

#11. There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.

Georg Cantor

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Georg Cantor

#13. Great innovation only happens when people aren't afraid to do things differently.

Georg Cantor

#14. I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

Michael Dirda

#15. Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions.

Georg Cantor

#16. I loved 'Rock Lobster.' I probably heard 'Rock Lobster' first at a party or dance. Then we would do the Rock Lobster - get down on the floor and do the whole dance. I thought that was really cool and exciting, that there was actually a band that had their own dance at that point.

Corin Tucker

#17. Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality.

Georg Cantor

#18. But these great minds cannot avois doing extraordinary things!

Samuel Richardson

#19. I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God's help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more than twenty years; every year, and almost every day brings me further in this science.

Georg Cantor

#20. A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.

Georg Cantor

#21. Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.

Georg Cantor

#22. I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

Georg Cantor

#23. The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers.

Georg Cantor

#24. This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!

Georg Cantor

#25. The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.

Georg Cantor

#26. In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

Georg Cantor

#27. The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than any finite limit no matter how small, or greater than any finite limit no matter how great.

Georg Cantor

#28. 'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'

Rob Manuel

#29. A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

Georg Cantor

#30. The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.

Georg Cantor

#31. Books are great companion.

Lailah Gifty Akita