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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

Topics: After Awaken Been First Having Hypothesis Proven Question Slept Thousand Thousand Years Were Would Years

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If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

~David Hilbert

Topics: Able Anything Ask Astrology Bring Discover Existence Men Most Stupid Ten Them Thing Together Were Wisest World Would

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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

Topics: Believe Could Establish Idiot Itself Martyrdom May Necessary Only Religion Requires Result Science Scientific Time Will

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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

Topics: Between Branches Construction Developed Does Further Hitherto Mathematical More Proceed Relations Science Separated Theory

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

~David Hilbert

Topics: Ever Infinite Man Moved Other Profoundly Question Spirit

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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

Topics: Clarification Concept Ever Greater His Idea Infinite Intellect Man Moved Need Other Profoundly Question Spirit Stands Stimulated Than

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Mathematician

Born: January 23rd, 1862

Died: February 14th, 1943

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