16 Quotes by Leopold Kronecker

The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk. The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.

Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man.

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters – having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man’s doing.