A Small Error In The Former Will

If We Knew Exactly The Laws Of Nature And The Situation Of The Universe At The Initial Moment, We Could Predict Exactly The Situation Of The Same Universe At A Succeeding Moment.

It Is Often Said That Experiments Should Be Made Without Preconceived Ideas. That Is Impossible. Not Only Would It Make Every Experiment Fruitless, But Even If We Wished To Do So, It Could Not Be Done. Every Man Has His Own Conception Of The World, And This He Cannot So Easily Lay Aside. We Must, Example, Use Language, And Our Language Is Necessarily Steeped In Preconceived Ideas. Only They Are Unconscious Preconceived Ideas, Which Are A Thousand Times The Most Dangerous Of All.

Point Set Topology Is A Disease From Which The Human Race Will Soon Recover.

If We Wish To Foresee The Future Of Mathematics, Our Proper Course Is To Study The History And Present Condition Of The Science.

Later Generations Will Regard Mengenlehre (set Theory) As A Disease From Which One Has Recovered.