David Hilbert Quotes

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

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.

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

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

We must know. We will know.

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.

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

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

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.