If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is to ask where t…

- Alfred Tarski

The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white.

- Alfred Tarski

Logic is justly considered the basis of all other sciences, even if only for the reason that in every argument we employ concepts taken from the fiel…

- Alfred Tarski

However the machine would permit us to test the hypothesis for any special value of n. We could carry out such tests for a sequence of consecutive va…

- Alfred Tarski

It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world and makes i…

- Alfred Tarski

... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of man…

- Alfred Tarski

You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.

- Alfred Tarski

There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.

- Alfred Tarski