David Hilbert Quotes & Sayings
16 most famous David Hilbert quotes and sayings (mathematician). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.”
“Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.”
“No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.”
“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.”
“The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.”
“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.”
“The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.”
“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.”
“If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?”
“He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.”
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