Quotations

Paul Bernays


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Enlightened humanity has sought in rational definiteness its liberating refuge from the dominating influence of the merely authoritative. At the present time, however, this has for a large part been lost to consciousness, and to many people scientific validity that has to be
acknowledged appears as an oppressing authority.
Comments on Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Remarks on the foundations of mathematics."