Begin With The Simplest Examples.

Galileo Was No Idiot. Only An Idiot Could Believe That Science Requires Martyrdom - That May Be Necessary In Religion, But In Time A Scientific Result Will Establish Itself.

I Do Not See That The Sex Of The Candidate Is An Argument Against Her Admission As A Privatdozent. After All, The Senate Is Not A Bathhouse. Objecting To Sex Discrimination Being The Reason For Rejection Of Emmy Noether's Application To Join The Faculty At The University Of Gottingen.

However Unapproachable These Problems May Seem To Us And However Helpless We Stand Before Them, We Have, Nevertheless, The Firm Conviction That Their Solution Must Follow By A Finite Number Of Purely Logical Processes.

Mathematics Is A Presuppositionless Science. To Found It I Do Not Need God, As Does Kronecker, Or The Assumption Of A Special Faculty Of Our Understanding Attuned To The Principle Of Mathematical Induction, As Does Poincaré, Or The Primal Intuition Of Brouwer, Or, Finally, As Do Russell And Whitehead, Axioms Of Infinity, Reducibility, Or Completeness, Which In Fact Are Actual, Contentual Assumptions That Cannot Be Compensated For By Consistency Proofs.

One Must Be Able To Say At All Times--instead Of Points, Straight Lines, And Planes--tables, Chairs, And Beer Mugs