I saw this quote from John Lennox’s “God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?”  Patrick Chan quoted it and I liked it so much I’m bringing it to you. “The great mathematician David Hilbert, spurred on by the singular achievements of mathematical compression, thought that the reductionist programme of mathematics could be carried out to such an extent that in the end all of mathematics could be compressed into a collection of formal statements in a finite set of symbols together with a finite set of axioms and rules of inference. It was a seductive thought with the ultimate in ‘bottom-up’ … Continue reading Reductionism