Arithmetic Quote by Hermann Weyl

“God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!”

Hermann Weyl

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For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.

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Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

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Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.

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The whole is always more, is more capable of a much greater variety of wave states, than the combination of its parts. ... In…

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You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

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Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as…

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“The goal of mathematics is the symbolic comprehension of the infinite with human, that is finite, means.”

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