Author: David Hilbert

Quotes

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

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

- David Hilbert

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

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

- David Hilbert

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

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

- 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.

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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