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

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Kurt Gödel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 28
Died: 1978
Died: January 14
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The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision.
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The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one can prove any theorem using nothing but a few mechanical rules.
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The axiomatic method is very powerful
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All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.
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Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principle 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.
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Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.
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But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education) reason itself does not err.
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Nothing new had been done in Logic since Aristotle!
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...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.
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I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.
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I don't believe in natural science.
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I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.
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The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.
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