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> [“There is a difference between a thing and talking about a thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/there-is-a-difference-between-a-thing-and-talking-about-a-thing/)

[Kurt Godël](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

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## More 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/a-consistency-proof-for-any-system-can-be-carried-out-only-by-means/)

[Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

> [The axiomatic method is very powerful](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/the-axiomatic-method-is-very-powerful/)

[Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

> [I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/i-like-islam-it-is-a-consistent-idea-of-religion-and-open-minded/)

[Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

> [Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/either-mathematics-is-too-big-for-the-human-mind-or-the-human-mind-is/)

[Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

> [The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/the-more-i-think-about-language-the-more-it-amazes-me-that-people/)

[Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

> [The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/the-meaning-of-world-is-the-separation-of-wish-and-fact/)

[Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

> [The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/the-physical-laws-in-their-observable-consequences-have-a-finite/)

[Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

> [Said to physicist John Bahcall. I don't believe in natural science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/said-to-physicist-john-bahcall-i-don-t-believe-in-natural-science/)

[Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

> [I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/i-am-convinced-of-the-afterlife-independent-of-theology-if-the-world/)

[Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

> [All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/all-generalizations-with-the-possible-exception-of-this-one-are-false/)

[Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

> [In any non-trivial axiomatic system, there are true theorems which cannot be proven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/in-any-non-trivial-axiomatic-system-there-are-true-theorems-which/)

[Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

> [Nothing new had been done in Logic since Aristotle!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/nothing-new-had-been-done-in-logic-since-aristotle/)

[Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

> [The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/the-development-of-mathematics-towards-greater-precision-has-led-as/)

[Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

> [“Our total reality and total existence are beautiful and meaningful . . . . We should judge reality by the little which we truly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/our-total-reality-and-total-existence-are-beautiful-and-meaningful-we/)

[Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

> [I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-g-del/i-don-t-believe-in-empirical-science-i-only-believe-in-a-priori-truth/)

[Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-g-del/)

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