“The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.”
― Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
“I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.”
― Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
“The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.”
― Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
“There is a difference between a thing and talking about a thing.”
― Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
“Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.”
― Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
"All generalisations - perhaps except this one - are false."
― Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
"I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded."
― Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
"I don't believe in natural science."
― Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
“It is well known that the development of mathematics in the direction of greater precision has led to the formalization of extensive mathematical domains, in the sense that proofs can be carried out according to a few mechanical rules.... It is reasonable therefore to make the conjecture that these axioms and rules of inference are also sufficient to decide all mathematical questions, which can be formally expressed in the given systems. In what follows it will be shown that this is not the case.”
― Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)