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• Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.
• If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid…
• Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on…
• I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts…
• The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
• One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs
• Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.
• The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between…
• No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet…
• The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality
• One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it
• Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in…

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