Generalizations Possible Quotes by Kurt Gödel

...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the…

— Kurt Gödel

The axiomatic method is very powerful

— Kurt Gödel

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

— Kurt Gödel

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

— Kurt Gödel

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

— Kurt Gödel

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

— Kurt Gödel

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

— Kurt Gödel

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

— Kurt Gödel

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

— Kurt Gödel

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

— Kurt Gödel

In any non-trivial axiomatic system, there are true theorems which cannot be proven.

— Kurt Gödel

Nothing new had been done in Logic since Aristotle!

— Kurt Gödel