Clippings

…Gödel was coolly detached from the sort of drama that escaping Nazi Europe afforded. “Gödel has come from Vienna,” wrote Oskar Morgenstern in his journal. Morgenstern, too, was originally from Vienna and was naturally eager to get news of his beleaguered city from the newly arrived logician. “In his mix of profundity and otherworldliness he is very droll. …When questioned about Vienna, he replied ‘The coffee is wretched.’”