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> [An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the best of circumstances, the relationship is clear enough so that the mathematician can submit his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/an-axiomatic-system-establishes-a-reverberating-relationship-between/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

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> [An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list of symbols, an explicit set of rules governing their cohabitation, an explicit list of axioms,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/an-axiomatic-system-comprises-axioms-and-theorems-and-requires-a/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

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## Other authors on Axioms

- [Mokokoma Mokhonoana 76 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/axioms/mokokoma-mokhonoana/)

## More by David Berlinski

> [In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/in-the-end-every-scheme-and-every-science-is-justified-by-itself-or/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/for-all-the-great-dreams-profitlessly-invested-in-the-digital/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/the-motion-of-the-mind-is-conveyed-along-a-cloud-of-meaning-there-is/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [“The argument that Hawking has offered may be conveyed by question-and-answer, as in the Catholic catechism.   A Catechism of Quantum Cosmology Q: From…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/the-argument-that-hawking-has-offered-may-be-conveyed-by-question-and/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/if-moral-statements-are-about-something-then-the-universe-is-not/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [“Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/before-you-can-ask-is-darwinian-theory-correct-or-not-you-have-to-ask/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [“What Hitler did not believe and what Stalin did not believe and what Mao did not believe and what the SS did not believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/what-hitler-did-not-believe-and-what-stalin-did-not-believe-and-what/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/bystanders-wandered-in-and-out-of-the-merchant-s-stall-passing-the/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [“Whatever the degree to which Darwin may have “misled science into a dead end,” the biologist Shi V. Liu observed in commenting on Koonin’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/whatever-the-degree-to-which-darwin-may-have-misled-science-into-a/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/no-distinction-in-kind-rather-than-degree-between-ourselves-and-the/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/the-desire-to-see-and-the-desire-to-ratify-what-one-has-seen-are/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/every-computer-divides-itself-into-its-hardware-and-its-software-the/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/i-do-not-know-whether-any-of-this-is-true-i-am-certain-that-the/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/for-the-most-part-it-is-true-ordinary-men-and-women-regard/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

> [ The definition of a limit is essentially his \[Cauchy's\] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-berlinski/the-definition-of-a-limit-is-essentially-his-cauchy-s-creation-and-is/)

[David Berlinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-berlinski/)

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