Mark Quote by Hermann Weyl
“... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.”
About This Quote
Source Lecture: Foundations of Mathematics, 1939
Numbers are mere symbols; meaning comes from the rules we assign.
In simple terms: Numbers are empty marks.
Understand underlying structures.
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- education
- research
- philosophy
Key Concepts
Questions to Reflect On
- How do we assign meaning to symbols?
- What limits symbolic representation?
Symbols alone don’t convey truth.