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“... 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.”

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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The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of violence whose…

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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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“the problem is then to develop a theory of invariance with respect to arbitrary linear transformations, in which, however, in contra-distinction to the case…

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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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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound…

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I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.

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