David Hilbert Quotes

We must know. We will know. - David Hilbert

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man. - David Hilbert

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science. - David Hilbert

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

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists. - David Hilbert

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. - David Hilbert

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite. - David Hilbert

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us. - David Hilbert

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

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

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