David Hilbert

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology. ↗

— David Hilbert

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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. ↗

— David Hilbert

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He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain. ↗

— David Hilbert

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Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. ↗

— David Hilbert

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The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality. ↗

— David Hilbert

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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. ↗

— David Hilbert

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If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? ↗

— David Hilbert

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Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. ↗

— David Hilbert

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Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. ↗

— David Hilbert

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No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us. ↗

— David Hilbert

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