One of the things Ford Prefect had always found
hardest to understand about humans was their habit of
continually stating and repeating the very very obvious,
as in It’s a nice day, or You’re very tall, or Oh dear
you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you
all right? At first Ford had formed a theory to account
for this strange behaviour. If human beings don’t
keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths
probably seize up. After a few months’ consideration
and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of
a new one. If they don’t keep on exercising their lips,
he thought, their brains start working. After a while
he abandoned this one as well, as being obstructively
cynical, and decided he quite liked human beings after
all, but he always remained desperately worried about
the terrible number of things they didn’t know about.
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Douglas
Adams
(1995,
S. 45)
Insofern sich die Sätze der Mathematik auf die
Wirklichkeit beziehen, sind sie nicht sicher, und
insofern sie sicher sind, beziehen sie sich nicht auf die
Wirklichkeit.
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Albert
Einstein
(1921/1991,
S. 196ff)
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