Life Is A Process Which May Be

If You Tell Me Precisely What It Is A Machine Cannot Do, Then I Can Always Make A Machine Which Will Do Just That.

Kurt Godel's Achievement In Modern Logic Is Singular And Monumental - Indeed It Is More Than A Monument, It Is A Landmark Which Will Remain Visible Far In Space And Time. ... The Subject Of Logic Has Certainly Completely Changed Its Nature And Possibilities With Godel's Achievement.

The Sciences Do Not Try To Explain, They Hardly Even Try To Interpret, They Mainly Make Models. By A Model Is Meant A Mathematical Construct Which, With The Addition Of Certain Verbal Interpretations, Describes Observed Phenomena. The Justification Of Such A Mathematical Construct Is Solely And Precisely That It Is Expected To Work-that Is, Correctly To Describe Phenomena From A Reasonably Wide Area.

The Calculus Was The First Achievement Of Modern Mathematics And It Is Difficult To Overestimate Its Importance. I Think It Defines More Unequivocally Than Anything Else The Inception Of Modern Mathematics; And The System Of Mathematical Analysis, Which Is Its Logical Development, Still Constitutes The Greatest Technical Advance In Exact Thinking.

Technological Possibilities Are Irresistible To Man. If Man Can Go To The Moon, He Will. If He Can Control The Climate, He Will.