4 Quotes & Sayings By David Hilbert

David Hilbert was a German mathematician and a leader of mathematical physics during the early twentieth century. He is especially remembered for his contributions to geometry, including his development of Hilbert's axiomatic system, now known as axiomatic set theory, which became the most popular formal system for mathematics in the twentieth century.

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