Kurt Godel Quotes on Truth
Kurt Friedrich Godel was an Austrian-American mathematician, logician, and philosopher and one of the most important logicians in the history of the discipline. This page collects quotes attributed to Kurt Godel on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine.”
As quoted in Topoi : The Categorial Analysis of Logic (1979) by Robert Goldblatt , p. 13 -
Attributed to Kurt Godel:
“Any consistent formal system that contains elementary arithmetic is incomplete.”
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Attributed to Kurt Godel:
“Mathematical objects are real; they are not the inventions of the mind.”
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Attributed to Kurt Godel:
“I have come to the conclusion that the world is rational.”
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“The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.”
Reflections on Kurt Gödel , MIT Press, Hao Wang 1987, page 95, according to Karl Menger