Arbitrary Quote by Anonymous
“But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting.”
![“[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or to geology, but is a common denominator of all science. In fact, instead of being an assumption or an ad hoc hypothesis, it is simply a succinct…” quote by M. King Hubbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b9/m-king-hubbert-38933_ads_the-first-postulate-of-the-principle-of_1182064.jpg)
![“...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself.” quote by Kurt Gödel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bbd/kurt-g-del-26112_consistency_a-consistency-proof-for-any-system-can-b_86224.jpg)
