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He who seeks for methods with...

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

David Gilbert 53 quotes

Mathematics is a presuppositi...

Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincar?, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.

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Physics is becoming too diffi...

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

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No other question has ever mo...

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.

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The art of doing mathematics ...

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

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The further a mathematical th...

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.

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Mathematics is a game played ...

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

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How thoroughly it is ingraine...

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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A mathematical theory is not ...

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.

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The infinite! No other questi...

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

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If I were to awaken after hav...

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

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Galileo was no idiot. Only an...

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.

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In mathematics ... we find tw...

In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations inherent in the maze of materials ... being studied, and to correlate the material in a systematic and orderly manner. On the other hand, the tendency towards intuitive understanding fosters a more immediate grasp of the objects one studies, a live rapport with them, so to speak, which stresses the concrete meaning of their relations.

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The arithmetical symbols are ...

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

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Sometimes it happens that a m...

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

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[On Cantor's work:] The fines...

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

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Geometry, like arithmetic, re...

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

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The tool which serves as inte...

The tool which serves as intermediary between theory and practice, between thought and observation, is mathematics; it is mathematics which builds the linking bridges and gives the ever more reliable forms.

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Indignant reply to the blaten...

Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their university.

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Every kind of science, if it ...

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

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