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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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I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.

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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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The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting from a random distribution of elementary particles and the field is as unlikely as the separation of the atmosphere into its components. The complexity of the living things has to be present within the material [from which they are derived] or in the laws [governing their formation].

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But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.

Kurt Gödel

Kurt Gödel

Born: April 28, 1906

Died: January 14, 1978 (aged 71)

Bio: Kurt Friedrich Gödel was an Austrian, and later American, logician, mathematician, and philosopher.

Known for:

Consistency of the Continuum Hypothesis. (AM-3) (1940)
Collected Works
Collected Works . I: Publications 1929–1936

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