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

~David Hilbert

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

~David Hilbert

Topics: Boundaries Country Cultural Geographic Knows Mathematics One Country Races World

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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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Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

~David Hilbert

Topics: Becoming Difficult Physicists Physics Too

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One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

~David Hilbert

Topics: Earlier Importance Measure Number Publications Rendered Scientific Superfluous Work

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

~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

Topics: Conditioned Connection In My Opinion Mathematical Opinion Organism Parts Science Vitality Whole Whose

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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.

~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

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No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

~David Hilbert

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Mathematician

Born: January 23rd, 1862

Died: February 14th, 1943

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