Kurt Gödel Quotes

The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.

I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife

I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.

All generalisations - perhaps except this one - are false.

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.

...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself.

But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.

Nothing new had been done in Logic since Aristotle!

The axiomatic method is very powerful

The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision.

I don't believe in natural science.

Said to physicist John Bahcall. I don't believe in natural science.