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Leopold Kronecker
(1823 - 1891)
German mathematician.
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Science Quotes by Leopold Kronecker (1)
Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.
The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.
The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.
— Leopold Kronecker
Speech at the Berlin meeting of the Society of German Scientists and Doctors in 1886, published in Jahreshericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung. Trans. obituary of Kronecker by H. E. Weber, Year Book of the Gennan Mathematics Association, 1893, 19.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) --