David Hilbert Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von David Hilbert:

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

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

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

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

David Hilbert

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

David Hilbert

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

David Hilbert

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

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

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

David Hilbert

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

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

David Hilbert

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

David Hilbert

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

David Hilbert

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

David Hilbert

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

David Hilbert