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- Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory. — Asher Peres
- Plenty of mathematicians, Hardy knew, could follow a step-by-step discursus unflaggingly-yet counted for nothing beside Ramanujan. Years later, he would contrive an… — Robert Kanigel
- I would like to make a confession which may seem immoral: I do not believe in Hilbert space anymore. — John von Neumann
- In Hilbert space no one can hear you scream. — Yakir Aharonov
- Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had… — George Polya
- Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman… — David Hilbert
- But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved… — Julian Coolidge
- I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows… — Alonzo Church