“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation... Hilbert was singularly free from national and racial prejudices; in all public… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that by… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of violence whose… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
“the problem is then to develop a theory of invariance with respect to arbitrary linear transformations, in which, however, in contra-distinction to the case… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
The whole is always more, is more capable of a much greater variety of wave states, than the combination of its parts. ... In… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
“The goal of mathematics is the symbolic comprehension of the infinite with human, that is finite, means.” — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it! — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share
