Kurt Gödel quotes
Kurt Gödel was an Austrian logician, mathematician, and philosopher, widely regarded as one of the most important logicians in history. His incompleteness theorems transformed mathematics and revealed fundamental limits of formal systems. He profoundly influenced logic, philosophy, and the foundations of mathematics. Here are 20 of his quotes:
The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting from a random distribution of elementary particles and the field is as unlikely as the separation of the atmosphere into its components. The complexity of the living things has to be present within the material [from which they are derived] or in the laws.
Kurt Gödel
Only someone who (like the Intuitionist) denies that the concepts and axioms of classical set theory have any meaning could be satisfied with such a solution, not someone who believes them to describe some well-determined reality. For in reality Cantor's conjecture must be either true or false, and its undecidability from the axioms as known today can only mean that these axioms do not contain a complete description of reality.
Kurt Gödel
Our total reality and total existence are beautiful and meaningful.... We should judge reality by the little which we truly know of it. Since that part which conceptually we know fully turns out to be so beautiful, the real world of which we know so little should also be beautiful. Life may be miserable for seventy years and happy for a million years: the short period of misery may even be necessary for the whole.
Kurt Gödel
Kurt Gödel
Occupation: Austrian-American Logician
Born: April 28, 1906
Died: January 14, 1978
Quotes count: 20
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