It seems clear that [set theory] violates against the essence of the continuum, which, by its very nature, cannot at all be battered into a single se… - Hermann Weyl

[Physicists and philosophers] stick stubbornly to the principles of a mechanistic interpretation of the world after physics has, in its factual structure, already outgrown the latter. They have the same excuse as the inhabitant of the mainland who for the first time travels on the open sea: he will desperately try to stay in sight of the vanishing coast line, as long as there is no other coast in sight, towards which he steers.

...spannt aber dadurch auch das Bewußtsein seine Form, die Zeit, über die Wirklichkeit aus...

This letter, if judged by the novelty and profundity of ideas it contains, is perhaps the most substantial piece of writing in the whole literature of mankind.