"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."

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Source : Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.70, Courier Corporation

Hermann Weyl

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“They aren't common, but enormously interesting. How can it be that you've been together that long and you're still intensely in love with them?”
“The United States Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spends $46 billion per year operating 65 different social programs.Â If one goes down the list of these programsâ€¦ the need for each is either created or exacerbated byÂ the breakup of families and marriages.”
“True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk.”
“A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.”
“If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.”
“It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.”
“Is a lifelong student of the world's wisdom literature, it is my duty to inform students that ridding the world of evil is a goal very different from any recommended by Jesus, Buddha or Muhammad, though not so different from some recommended by Joseph Stalin, Joseph McCarthy and Mao Tse Tung.”
“There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.”

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