Brilliant Quote by Hermann Weyl

“One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight - brilliant, sharp but cold ... thus we are clearest where knowledge matters least: in mathematics, especially number theory.”

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

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

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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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