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"... according to what Veblen told me, the association between Einstein and Gödel arose in the following way.Veblen felt that he had to look out for Gödel, and spent quite a lot of time talking with hi…"

"In the 1970s I even got to meet Kurt Gödel a few times. The king of the logicians. Gödel once told me, “The a priori is very powerful.” By this he meant that pure logic can take you farther than you m…"

"Not even mathematics can be considered as a closed and complete system of axioms and theorems. The mathematical world is inexhaustible, no finite set of postulates and deductions will ever be able to …"

"After Einstein's death, Gödel's sense of exile must have deepened enormously. When Einstein had been ordered by his doctor to take a rest cure, there had been nobody, as Gödel complained to his mother…"

"The progenitor of information theory, and perhaps the pivotal figure in the recent history of human thought, was Kurt Gödel, the eccentric Austriac genius and intimate of Einstein who drove determinis…"

"In the end we search out the beginnings. Established, beyond comparison, as the most important logician of our times by his remarkable results of the 1930s, Kurt Gödel was also most unusual in the way…"

"Gödel published comparatively little, but almost always to maximum effect; his papers are models of precision and incisive presentation."

"Fifty years ago Kurt Gödel... proved that the world of pure mathematics is inexhaustible. No finite set of axioms and rules of inference can ever encompass the whole of mathematics. Given any finite s…"

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

"Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principal task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. … We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological worl…"

"Religions are, for the most part, bad-but religion is not."

"There are other worlds and rational beings of a different and higher kind. The world in which we live is not the only one in which we shall live or have lived."

"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 unlikel…"

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

"The completeness theorem, mathematically, is indeed an almost trivial consequence of Skolem 1923a. However, the fact is that, at that time, nobody (including Skolem himself) drew this conclusion (neit…"

"To every ω-consistent recursive class κ of formulae there correspond recursive class signs r, such that neither v Gen r nor Neg (v Gen r) belongs to Flg (κ) (where v is the free vari…"

"Notices of the AMS, April 2006, Volume 53, Number 4 · Kurt Gödel Centenary Issue"

"The meaning of the world is the separation of wish and fact. Wish is a force as applied to thinking beings, to realize something. A fulfilled wish is a union of wish and fact. The meaning of the whole…"

"Gödel and the Nature of Mathematical Truth" Edge: A Talk with Rebecca Goldstein on Kurt Gödel"

"The completeness theorem, mathematically, is indeed an almost trivial consequence of Skolem 1923a. However, the fact is that, at that time, nobody drew this conclusion ."

"It's Not All In The Numbers: Gregory Chaitin Explains Gödel's Mathematical Complexities"

"National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir"

"Ninety percent of see their principal task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. … We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view."

"But every error is due to extraneous factors ; reason itself does not err."

"The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics , starting from a random distribution of elementary particles and the field is as unlikely as the separation of the atmosphere…"

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

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

"Secondly, even disregarding the intrinsic necessity of some new axiom, and even in case it has no intrinsic necessity at all, a probable decision about its truth is possible also in another way, namel…"

"Gödel and the limits of logic" by John W Dawson Jr."

"Time Bandits" an article about the relationship between Gödel and Einstein by Jim Holt"

"Kurt Gödel" by Juliette Kennedy in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy"