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'Facts, facts, facts,' cries the scientist if he wants to emphasize the necessity of a firm foundation for science. What is a fact? A fact is a thought that is true. But the scientist will surely not recognize something which depends on men's varying states of mind to be the firm foundation of science.

Gottlob Frege's Popular Quotes

A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this posi…

- Gottlob Frege

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

- Gottlob Frege

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

- Gottlob Frege

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

- Gottlob Frege

Having visual impressions is, of course, necessary for seeing things, but it is not sufficient. What must be added is not anything sensible. And it i…

- Gottlob Frege

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

- Gottlob Frege

It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that hardly deserves the names of…

- Gottlob Frege

Arithmetic has began to totter.

- Gottlob Frege

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

- Gottlob Frege