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I like Islam, it is a consistent idea of religion and open-minded.

— Kurt Gödel A Logical Journey: From Gödel to Philosophy (1996)

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Either mathematics is too big for the human mind, or the human mind is more than a machine.

Topoi : The Categorial Analysis of Logic (1979)

But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.

I like Islam, it is consistent [or consequential] idea of religion and open-minded.

The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.

Religions are, for the most part, bad-but religion is not.

A Logical Journey: From Gödel to Philosophy (1996)

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