In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
More Quotes from Georg Cantor:
Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.Georg Cantor
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
Georg Cantor
What a welcome relief this must have been to the chronically depressed Cantor As John D. Barrow writes in The Infinite Book A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless, ... started to tell his friends that he had not been the inventor of the ideas about infinity that he had published. He was merely a mouthpiece, inspired by God to communicate parts of the mind of God to everyone else.
Georg Cantor
A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.
Georg Cantor
The actual infinite arises in three contexts first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute second when it occurs in the contingent, created world third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type.
Georg Cantor
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