Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their pri… - Kurt Gödel

" "
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 world view.

Kurt Gödel

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Kurt Gödel

Kurt Gödel (28 April 1906 – 14 January 1978) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics.

Also Known As

Native Name: Kurt Friedrich Gödel

All quotes from Kurt Gödel Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Kurt Gödel:

Ludwig Wittgenstein Richard Dawkins Alfred North Whitehead Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Immanuel Kant

Additional quotes by Kurt Gödel

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

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 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 (neither from Skolem 1923a nor, as I did, from similar considerations of his own).

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 t… - Kurt Gödel

About Kurt Gödel

Also Known As

Additional quotes by Kurt Gödel