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The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.

Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

A scientist can hardly encounter anything more desirable than, just as a work is completed, to have its foundation give way.

There is more danger of numerical sequences continued indefinitely than of trees growing up to heaven. Each will some time reach its greatest height.

One can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.

The thought: A logical inquiry

I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.

What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?

Arithmetic has began to totter.