You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.
Alfred TarskiIt may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world and makes it more harmonious in our eyes should be held in lower esteem than, say, an invention which reduces the cost of paving roads, or improves household plumbing.
Alfred TarskiThere can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.
Alfred TarskiHowever the machine would permit us to test the hypothesis for any special value of n. We could carry out such tests for a sequence of consecutive values n=2,3,.. up to, say, n=100. If the result of at least one test were negative, the hypothesis would prove to be false; otherwise our confidence in the hypothesis would increase, and we should feel encouraged to attempt establishing the hypothesis, instead of trying to construct a counterexample.
Alfred Tarski