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David Hilbert Quotes

«Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.»
Author: David Hilbert
«Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.»
Author: David Hilbert
«Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.»
Author: David Hilbert
«A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.»
Author: David Hilbert
«Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.»
Author: David Hilbert
«How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.»
Author: David Hilbert
«One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.»
Author: David Hilbert
«Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.»
Author: David Hilbert
«Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.»
Author: David Hilbert
«The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.»
Author: David Hilbert