Quotes About Godel

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

Thomas Pynchon

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Kurt Godel

#6. Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I mean that they are the only ones capable of it.

Frederick Lenz

#7. The axiomatic method is very powerful

Kurt Godel

#8. Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.

Edward Carpenter

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

Kurt Godel

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

Kurt Godel

#13. She was my rain. She was my unpredictable element. She was my fear. But a racer should not be afraid of rain; a racer should embrace the rain.

Garth Stein

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

Kurt Godel

#15. I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

Nancy Reagan

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

Kurt Godel

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

Kurt Godel

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

Kurt Godel

#21. 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

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

Kurt Godel

#23. In England, where I come from, fashion and music go hand in hand. They're integral to each other.

Don Letts

#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. Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

Alan Watts

#27. The man who has forgotten to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. Robert Louis Stevenson

Linda Dillow

#28. The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.

Meir Soloveichik