"Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one……" — Hermann Weyl
"Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation."
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Hermann Weyl
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21 Quotes by Hermann Weyl
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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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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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A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental…
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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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