Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. David Hilbert Read Quote
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain. David Hilbert Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality. David Hilbert Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man. David Hilbert Read Quote
