“But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.”

— Kurt Gödel

Attributed as a remark of 29th November 1972, in Incompleteness (2005) by Rebecca Goldstein

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logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics 1906–1978

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