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Mathematical Quotes by David Hilbert
- 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…
- Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
- I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.
- [On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.
- Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.
- 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…
- 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…
More Mathematical Quotes
- Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
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- The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant
- As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his… — Annie Besant
- My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is… — David Bohm
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole
- Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math.… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar