The states of affairs with which mathematics deals are, apart from the very simplest ones, so complicated that it is practically impossible to bring them into full givenness in consciousness and in this way to grasp them completely.


Translated by Stephen Pollard and Thomas Bole, The Continuum: A Critical Examination of the Foundation of Analysis, Chapter 1 (p. 17)

Hermann Weyl Quotes

The states of affairs with which mathematics deals are, apart from the very simplest ones, so complicated that it is practically impossible to bring...

The states of affairs with which mathematics deals are, apart from the very simplest ones, so complicated that it is practically impossible to bring...

The states of affairs with which mathematics deals are, apart from the very simplest ones, so complicated that it is practically impossible to bring...

The states of affairs with which mathematics deals are, apart from the very simplest ones, so complicated that it is practically impossible to bring...