Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, bea…

- Hermann Weyl

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

- Hermann Weyl

The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of violence…

- Hermann Weyl

Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we have succeeded in unr…

- Hermann Weyl

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of con…

- Hermann Weyl

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

- Hermann Weyl

Mathematics has been called the science of the infinite. Indeed, the mathematician invents finite constructions by which questions are decided that b…

- Hermann Weyl

God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!

- Hermann Weyl

A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and alm…

- Hermann Weyl