In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give you insight, the ones that lead you in interesting directions, the ones that connect with lots… — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
As Hamlet tells his friend, ''There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'' Well then, we… — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are. — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give… — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
I think logicians hate my work, they detest it! And I'm like pornography, I'm sort of an unmentionable subject in the world of logic,… — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an experimental mathematics… — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment! — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself. — Gregory Chaitin Copy Share Image
