John D. Barrow over wiskunde als religie

If a ‘religion’ is defined to be a system of ideas that contains unprovable statements, then Gödel taught us that mathematics is not only a religion, it is the only religion that can prove itself to be one.
John D. Barrow, The Artful Universe Expanded, p. 250 (2005)

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