Gottlob Frege Quotes
Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.
...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.
I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.
There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.
The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.
Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.
