"A modern mathematical proof is not very different……" — Hermann Weyl
"A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details."
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21 Quotes by Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl has 21 quotes on this site.
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Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.
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Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human…
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You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
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Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.
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Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.
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One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman…
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Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand…
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We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain…
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Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.
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It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be…
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... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them…
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Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does…
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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the…
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The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an…
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A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a…
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If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I…
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Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape…
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has”: “I have had, you see, to…
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The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the…
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It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last…
— Gustave Meyrink
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Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it…
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold…
— Agnes Denes
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In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
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