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David Hilbert


German
January 23, 1862
Mathematician
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The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.


David Hilbert
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Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
David Hilbert
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
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
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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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
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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.
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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.
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