Quotes by David Berlinski

David Berlinski

“Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost.” “And old men?” “Of what they have not found.”

Discovery

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Men

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

Novel

An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list of symbols, an explicit set of rules governing their cohabitation, an explicit list of axioms, and, above all, an explicit list of rules explicitly governing the steps that the mathematician may take in going from assumptions to conclusions. No appeal to meaning nor to intuition. Symbols lose their referential powers; inferences become mechanical.

Eye

Hands

Intuition

An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the best of circumstances, the relationship is clear enough so that the mathematician can submit his or her reasoning to an informal checklist, passing from step to step with the easy confidence the steps are small enough so that he cannot be embarrassed nor she tripped up.

Assuming

Enough

Steps

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

Logic

Lying

Mathematics

At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know what we do not know in an immeasurably richer way than we did. And learning this has been a remarkable achievement-among the greatest and least-known of the modern era.

Achievement

Science

Way

Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant’s stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor asked timidly for dreams of wine and ease. Women asked for dreams of love, and men for dreams of women.

Dream

Men

Wine

Commentators who today talk of ‘The Dark Ages’ when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas’ intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.

Dark

Ignorance

Religious

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it’s certainly a necessary one.

Nazism

Phenomenon

Thinking

Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind. It is hardly surprising that men and women have done what computers now do long before computers could do anything at all. The dissociation between mind and matter in men and machines is very striking; it suggests that almost any stable and reliable organization of material objects can execute an algorithm and so come to command some form of intelligence.

Long

Men

Organization

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Dark

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Ends

Enough

Eugenics

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Humanity

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Justified

Logic

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Quotes by David Berlinski

David Berlinski

“Young men wish always to dream of what they have lost.” “And old men?” “Of what they have not found.”

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

At the beginning of the new millennium, we still do not know why mathematics is true and whether it is certain. But we know what we do not know in an immeasurably richer way than we did. And learning this has been a remarkable achievement-among the greatest and least-known of the modern era.

Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant’s stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor asked timidly for dreams of wine and ease. Women asked for dreams of love, and men for dreams of women.

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it’s certainly a necessary one.

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