"The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an……" — Hermann Weyl

"The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence."

— Hermann Weyl

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21 Quotes by Hermann Weyl

Hermann Weyl has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human…
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.
One may say that mathematics talks about the things which are of no concern to men. Mathematics has the inhuman…
Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand…
We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain…
Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.
It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be…
A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental…
... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them…

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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
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Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
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Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
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