Three Cheers for Einstein and Gödel

Both Einstein and Gödel are as far from seconding the ancient Sophist’s “man is the measure of all things” as it is perhaps possible to be. For both of these men the methodology of their respective fields—the complex mixtures of reasoning, including both intuition and deduction (and, in the case of physics, which is not a priori, observation as well)—does not consist of arbitrary sets of rules that govern an elaborate made-up mind-game or language-game, which could just as well have been played by some other sets of rules entirely, leading to an altogether different construction of reality.

Rebecca Goldstein, Incompleteness, pg. 40

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