Constraints Quote by Hermann Weyl

“Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.”

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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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“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,…

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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 introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence.

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

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Style is the outcome of constraint.

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The natural world is not only a set of constraints but of contexts within which we can more fully realize our dreams.

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Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant…

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