Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes About Math

Quotes about: Math

• There can never be surprises in logic.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Math, Logic, Surprise

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.28, Clube de Autores

• With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Math, Mountain

• Mathematics is a logical method. . . . Mathematical propositions express no thoughts. In life it is never a mathematical proposition which we need, but we use mathematical propositions only in order to infer from propositions which do not belong to mathematics to others which equally do not belong to mathematics.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Math, Order

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, Charles Kay Ogden (1998). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.98, Courier Corporation

• Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Math, Reality

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.26, University of Chicago Press

• We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Math, Law, Facts

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.38, Lulu.com

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