Quotes by David Hilbert
“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
“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
“Every mathematical problem must be solvable. We are convinced of that. After all, one of the greatest things about mathematics is its certainty.”— David Hilbert
“One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.”— David Hilbert
“The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.”— David Hilbert
“Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.”— 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