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Hermann Weyl Quotes

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

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

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.192, Courier Corporation

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

"Mind and Nature: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics".

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.

Hermann Weyl (2013). “Riemanns geometrische Ideen, ihre Auswirkung und ihre Verknüpfung mit der Gruppentheorie”, p.44, Springer-Verlag